# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-barrington
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:52.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-barrington"
name: "George Barrington"
slug: "george-barrington"
description: "George Barrington was an Irish pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer, and author. His escapades, arrests, and trials were widely chronicled in the London press of his day. For over a century following his death, and still perhaps today, he was most celebrated for the couplet “True patriots all; for be it understood, We left our country for our country’s good”. The attribution of the line to Barrington is considered apocryphal since the 1911 discovery by Sydney book collector Alfred Lee of the 1802 book in which the line first appeared."
tagline: "Irish-born pickpocket (1755–1804)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frontispiece_from_the_memoirs_of_George_Barrington.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1755-05-14"
deathDate: "1804-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.54
  momentum:             6.585365853658536
  historical:           4.821924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barrington"
    title: "George Barrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barrington"
    title: "George Barrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barrington"
    title: "George Barrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Баррингтон, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Barrington"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5536756"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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