# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-starkey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:08:34.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-starkey"
name: "David Starkey"
slug: "david-starkey"
description: "David Robert Starkey is an English historian, radio and television presenter, with views that he describes as conservative. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before reading history at Cambridge on a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King Henry VIII's household. From Cambridge, he moved to the London School of Economics, where he was a lecturer in history until 1998. He has written several books on the Tudors."
tagline: "British constitutional historian"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1945-01-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump