# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-whichcote
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:03:23.751Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-whichcote"
name: "Benjamin Whichcote"
slug: "benjamin-whichcote"
description: "Benjamin Whichcote was an English Establishment and Puritan priest, \nProvost of King's College, Cambridge and leader of the Cambridge Platonists. He held that man is the \"child of reason\" and so not completely depraved by nature, as Puritans held. He also argued for religious toleration."
tagline: "English theologian"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1609"
deathDate: "1683"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             3.565217391304348
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "بينچامين وايتشكوت"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump