# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-spencer-palmer
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:36:10.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-spencer-palmer"
name: "Henry Spencer Palmer"
slug: "henry-spencer-palmer"
description: "Major-General Henry Spencer Palmer was a British Royal Engineer who was a member of the elite Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment that founded British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), and who subsequently developed the Port of Yokohama in the Empire of Japan as a foreign advisor to the Meiji government."
tagline: "British military engineer and surveyor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Major_General_Henry_Spencer_Palmer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1838-04-30"
deathDate: "1893-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.88
  momentum:             4.113805970149254
  historical:           6.345645333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Henry Spencer Palmer"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer_Palmer"
    title: "Henry Spencer Palmer"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "هنری اسپنسر پالمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer_Palmer"
    title: "Henry Spencer Palmer"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer_Palmer"
    title: "Henry Spencer Palmer"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer_Palmer"
    title: "Henry Spencer Palmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump