# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-amess
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:56:06.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-amess"
name: "David Amess"
slug: "david-amess"
description: "Sir David Anthony Andrew Amess was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 38 years, serving Southend West from 1997 until his murder in 2021. He previously served as MP for Basildon from 1983 to 1997. A member of the Conservative Party, he was a Catholic with socially conservative political views, and was in favour of Britain leaving the European Union."
tagline: "British politician (1952–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Sir_David_Amess_MP_crop_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-03-26"
deathDate: "2021-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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    url:       "https://www.davidamess.co.uk/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump