# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-brettingham-sowerby-ii
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:00:49.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-brettingham-sowerby-ii"
name: "George Brettingham Sowerby II"
slug: "george-brettingham-sowerby-ii"
description: "George Brettingham Sowerby II was a British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist. Together with his father, George Brettingham Sowerby I, he published the Thesaurus Conchyliorum and other illustrated works on molluscs. He was an elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 7 May 1844. He was the father of George Brettingham Sowerby III, also a malacologist."
tagline: "British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist; G.B. Sowerby II (1812–1884)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Grave_of_George_Brettingham_Sowerby_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg/330px-Grave_of_George_Brettingham_Sowerby_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1812-03-25"
deathDate: "1884-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.76
  momentum:             15.63829787234043
  historical:           7.0036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "George Brettingham Sowerby II"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brettingham_Sowerby_II"
    title: "George Brettingham Sowerby II"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%8D%D0%BC_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B8_II"
    title: "Джордж Бреттингэм Соверби II"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump