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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

1768 - 1854

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William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, (; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was a British army officer and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasion of Buenos Aires. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford is the 13,786th most popular politician (down from 11,611th in 2019), the 3,373rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,431st in 2019) and the 470th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 13,786 out of 19,576. Before him are Tenoch, Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Vistahm, Emperor Zhi, Andris Piebalgs, and Cándido Bareiro. After him are Ji Yun, Mariana Pineda, Pierre Frieden, Jacek Kuroń, Bobby Seale, and Nikolai Tanayev.

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Among people born in 1768, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 38. Before him are Jędrzej Śniadecki, Zacharias Werner, Kaʻahumanu, Anthony Carlisle, Johann Michael Vogl, and Marie-Jeanne de Lalande. After him are Friedrich von Adelung, Karl Ludwig von Haller, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Hendrik Voogd, and Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1854, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 53. Before him are Anton Pann, Edward Forbes, Carl Joseph Begas, Friedrich Eduard Beneke, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, and Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui. After him are Karl Ludwig von Haller, Angelo Mai, José Joaquín Prieto, Frederick Catherwood, Pedro María de Anaya, and Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 3,374 out of 8,785. Before him are Martin Barre (1946), George Eastham (1936), Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Michael Ball (1962), Philip Reeve (1966), and Ken Green (1924). After him are Charles Crichton (1910), Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), John Douglas (1830), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Warwick Davis (1970), and Michael Gothard (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford ranks 470. Before him are Matthew Hopkins (1620), Elizabeth Fry (1780), Geoffrey Howe (1926), Herbert Lawford (1851), George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758), and Ian Paisley (1926). After him are George W. Campbell (1769), Roy Jenkins (1920), Emil Voigt (1883), Thérèse Coffey (1971), Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724), and Mother Shipton (1488).

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