# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-tomkyns-chesney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:04:31.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-tomkyns-chesney"
name: "George Tomkyns Chesney"
slug: "george-tomkyns-chesney"
description: "General Sir George Tomkyns Chesney was a British Army officer, politician, and writer. He is remembered as the author of the novella The Battle of Dorking (1871), a founding work in the genre of invasion literature."
tagline: "British Army general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Chesney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1830-04-30"
deathDate: "1895-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.337869333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tomkyns_Chesney"
    title: "George Tomkyns Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "چورچ تومكينس تشيسنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tomkyns_Chesney"
    title: "George Tomkyns Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Chesney"
    title: "George Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tomkyns_Chesney"
    title: "George Tomkyns Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tomkyns_Chesney"
    title: "George Tomkyns Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tomkyns_Chesney"
    title: "George Tomkyns Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5545264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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