# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/everard-calthrop
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:37:09.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/everard-calthrop"
name: "Everard Calthrop"
slug: "everard-calthrop"
description: "Everard Richard Calthrop was a British railway engineer and inventor. Calthrop was a notable promoter and builder of narrow-gauge railways, especially of 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge, and was especially prominent in India. His most notable achievement was the Barsi Light Railway, but he is best known in his home country for the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway. Calthrop has been described as a \"railway genius\". Later in life he took an interest in aviation, patenting some early designs for parachutes."
tagline: "British civil engineer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1857-03-03"
deathDate: "1927-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             5.313113291703837
  historical:           6.344565333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9F%83%E5%BC%97%E6%8B%89%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E5%8D%A1%E7%88%BE%E6%96%AF%E7%BE%85%E6%99%AE"
    title: "埃弗拉德·卡爾斯羅普"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everard_Calthrop"
    title: "Everard Calthrop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everard_Calthrop"
    title: "Everard Calthrop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everard_Calthrop"
    title: "Everard Calthrop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everard_Calthrop"
    title: "Everard Calthrop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everard_Calthrop"
    title: "Everard Calthrop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everard_Calthrop"
    title: "Everard Calthrop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5416899"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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