# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-dale
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:57:15.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-dale"
name: "David Dale"
slug: "david-dale"
description: "David Dale was a Scottish industrialist, merchant and philanthropist during the Scottish Enlightenment period at the end of the 18th century. He was a successful entrepreneur in a number of areas, most notably in the cotton-spinning industry, and was the founder of the cotton mills in New Lanark, where he provided social and educational conditions in advance of anywhere else in Britain. New Lanark attracted visitors from all over the world. Robert Owen, who married Dale's daughter, Caroline, in 1799, used New Lanark to develop his theories about communitarian living, education and character formation. Scottish historian Tom Devine described Dale as \"the greatest cotton magnate of his time in Scotland\"."
tagline: "Scottish merchant"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Dale_Williams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1739-01-06"
deathDate: "1806-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.51
  momentum:             1.290322580645161
  historical:           5.481138666666667
  currentAttention:     7.168458781362008
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dale"
    title: "David Dale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "ديفيد ديل (رجل أعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "ديفيد ديل (رجال اعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dale"
    title: "David Dale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dale"
    title: "David Dale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dale"
    title: "David Dale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017741"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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