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Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet

1864 - 1922

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Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War Office, playing a vital role in drawing up plans to deploy an Expeditionary Force to France in the event of war. He acquired a reputation as a political intriguer for his role in agitating for the introduction of conscription and the Curragh incident of 1914. As Sub Chief of Staff to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Wilson was Sir John French's most important advisor during the 1914 campaign, but his poor relations with Douglas Haig and William Robertson saw him sidelined from top decision-making in the middle years of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet is the 1,964th most popular military personnel (up from 1,997th in 2019), the 342nd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 354th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet ranks 1,964 out of 2,058. Before him are Stephen Decatur, John Schofield, Salman Raduyev, Hubert Gough, Willis Augustus Lee, and George Henry Thomas. After him are Hugh McCulloch, James L. Jones, Valeriya Gnarovskaya, Aytaç Yalman, Keith Park, and Lisa Franchetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet ranks 172. Before him are Banjo Paterson, John Henry Davies, Alfred John Keene, Antonín Sova, Oscar Baumann, and Tully Marshall. After him are Jakob Jakobsen, Charles Marion Russell, W. H. R. Rivers, James Mitchel, and Jessie Ralph. Among people deceased in 1922, Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet ranks 134. Before him are John Butler Yeats, Liberato Marcial Rojas, William Desmond Taylor, Henry Lawson, Charles Thias, and Lyman Abbott. After him are Arthur Wesley Dow, John Wanamaker, W. H. R. Rivers, Lillian Russell, and Leslie Ward.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet ranks 342 out of 549. Before him are Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (516), Siobhan Fahey (1958), William Henry Harvey (1811), Katie McGrath (1983), Michael O'Leary (1961), and Paddy Moloney (1938). After him are Patricia Collinge (1892), Richard Mulcahy (1886), Christy Moore (1945), Duncan Hamilton (1920), Derek Daly (1953), and Stephen Kelly (1983).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet ranks 10. Before him are William Brown (1777), George Browne (1698), John de Robeck (1862), Alan Cunningham (1887), Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), and Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779).

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