# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-despard
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:14:00.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-despard"
name: "Edward Despard"
slug: "edward-despard"
description: "Edward Marcus Despard, an Irish officer of French descent in the service of the British Crown, gained notoriety as a colonial administrator for refusing to recognise race as a distinction in English law and, following his recall to London, as a republican conspirator. Despard's associations with the London Corresponding Society, the United Irishmen and United Britons led to his trial and execution in 1803 as the alleged ringleader of a plot to assassinate the King."
tagline: "British army officer, ringleader of the Despard Plot"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/Colonel-Edward-Marcus-Despard.jpg/330px-Colonel-Edward-Marcus-Despard.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1751"
deathDate: "1803-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.84
  momentum:             0.1301720130172013
  historical:           5.078444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Despard"
    title: "Edward Despard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Despard"
    title: "Edward Despard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Despard"
    title: "Edward Despard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Деспард, Эдуард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%84%9B%E5%BE%B7%E8%8F%AF%C2%B7%E5%BE%B7%E6%96%AF%E5%B8%95%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "愛德華·德斯帕德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5342574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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