# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-bancroft
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:53:25.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-bancroft"
name: "Edward Bancroft"
slug: "edward-bancroft"
description: "Edward Bartholomew Bancroft was an American physician and chemist who became a double agent, spying for both the United States and Great Britain while serving as secretary to the American commission in Paris during the American Revolutionary War."
tagline: "British naturalist and chemist (1745-1821) (1745 in New-Style dating)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EdwardBancroft.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1745-01-20"
deathDate: "1821-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.45
  momentum:             5.274841437632135
  historical:           6.437373333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bancroft"
    title: "Edward Bancroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA"
    title: "إدوارد بانكروفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA"
    title: "ادوارد بانكروفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bancroft"
    title: "Edward Bancroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bancroft_(Chemiker)"
    title: "Edward Bancroft (Chemiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bancroft"
    title: "Edward Bancroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bartholomew_Bancroft"
    title: "Edward Bartholomew Bancroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5341743"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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