# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-gilchrist
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:22:12.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-gilchrist"
name: "Alexander Gilchrist"
slug: "alexander-gilchrist"
description: "Alexander Gilchrist, an English author, is known mainly as a biographer of William Etty and of William Blake. Gilchrist's biography of Blake is still a standard reference work about the poet."
tagline: "British writer (1828–1861)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Gilchrist_Life_of_Blake_1863_title_page.jpg/330px-Gilchrist_Life_of_Blake_1863_title_page.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1828-04-25"
deathDate: "1861-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.71
  momentum:             8.795342588446035
  historical:           4.139165333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gilchrist"
    title: "Alexander Gilchrist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%86%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "الکساندر گیلچریست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gilchrist"
    title: "Alexander Gilchrist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80"
    title: "Гилкрист, Александр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4718950"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump