# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-turnour
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:11.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-turnour"
name: "George Turnour"
slug: "george-turnour"
description: "George Turnour Jnr, CCS (1799–1843) was a British colonial administrator, scholar and a historian. A member of the Ceylon Civil Service, he served as a Government Agent, Assistant Colonial Secretary and Treasurer of the Colony. He is known for his translation of the Mahavamsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lankan history which was published in 1837. Along with James Prinsep and Captain Edward Smith, he began to decipher the inscriptions on the first discovered Pillar of Ashoka."
tagline: "British civil servant in Ceylon"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1799"
deathDate: "1843-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.69
  momentum:             15.20833333333333
  historical:           5.270194666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Turnour"
    title: "George Turnour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "جورج تورنور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Turnour"
    title: "George Turnour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "ஜோர்ஜ் டேனர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC_(%E6%AD%B4%E5%8F%B2%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "ジョージ・ターナー (歴史家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Turnour"
    title: "George Turnour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3533426"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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