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William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst

1773 - 1857

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William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (14 January 1773 – 13 March 1857) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator who served as the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William from 1823 to 1828. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst is the 11,485th most popular politician (down from 10,738th in 2019), the 2,609th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,219th in 2019) and the 398th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 11,485 out of 19,576. Before him are José Bonifácio de Andrada, Raymond-Roupen, Catherine of Bulgaria, John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine. After him are Ahmed Dogan, Kukrit Pramoj, Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, and Nawruz Beg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 36. Before him are Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Josef Jungmann, Henrik Steffens, Giuseppe Acerbi, Jakob Friedrich Fries, and Lodewijk van Heiden. After him are Joseph de Villèle, Agostino Bassi, Jacob Aall, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, Yuri Lisyansky, and Sally Hemings. Among people deceased in 1857, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 41. Before him are Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, William Brown, Agustina de Aragón, Nasir-ud-Daulah, and Johann Jakob Heckel. After him are Manuel José Quintana, Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Wei Yuan, and Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 2,610 out of 8,785. Before him are Lewis Gilbert (1920), Damien Hirst (1965), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), Jackie Collins (1937), John Owen (1616), and Edith Pargeter (1913). After him are Susanna Hall (1583), Charles Kingsley (1819), Stuart Wilson (1946), Andrew Lang (1844), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), and Edith Tolkien (1889).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ranks 398. Before him are William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748), James Harrington (1611), Francis Pym (1922), Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), Henry Percy (1364), and John Owen (1616). After him are Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583), Ivor Richard (1932), Marjorie Bruce (1297), and Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478).

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