# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-deedes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:23:56.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-deedes"
name: "Bill Deedes"
slug: "bill-deedes"
description: "William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, was a British Conservative politician, army officer and journalist. He was the first person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph."
tagline: "English journalist, politician and newspaper editor (1913-2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/William-Francis-Deedes-Baron-Deedes.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1913-06-01"
deathDate: "2007-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.422110552763819
  historical:           7.711162666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بيل ديديس"
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    title: "Bill Deedes"
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    title: "Bill Deedes"
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    title: "Bill Deedes"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deedes"
    title: "William Deedes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Deedes"
    title: "Bill Deedes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Deedes"
    title: "Bill Deedes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84_%DA%88%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%B2"
    title: "بل ڈیڈیز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335420"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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