# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frances-acton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:44:31.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frances-acton"
name: "Frances Acton"
slug: "frances-acton"
description: "Frances Stackhouse Acton was a British botanist, archaeologist, writer and artist. Her father was noted botanist, Thomas Andrew Knight, who encouraged her education and included her in his experiments. She married an older land owner and, as they had no children, when he died she pursued her own interests, which included archaeology and architecture. She excavated a Roman villa, built a number of buildings and saved others in need of repair. She was keen on painting buildings and eventually went on to publish a charitable book, The Castles & Old Mansions of Shropshire."
tagline: "British botanist, archaeologist and artist (1794-1881)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1794-07-07"
deathDate: "1881-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.08
  momentum:             1.666666666666667
  historical:           6.136357333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Frances Stackhouse Acton"
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    title: "فرانسيس ستاكهاوس أكتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانسيس ستاخاوس اكتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Stackhouse_Acton"
    title: "Frances Stackhouse Acton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Acton"
    title: "Frances Acton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Stackhouse_Acton"
    title: "Frances Stackhouse Acton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Stackhouse_Acton"
    title: "Frances Stackhouse Acton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16857615"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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