# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hensleigh-wedgwood
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:26:15.778Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hensleigh-wedgwood"
name: "Hensleigh Wedgwood"
slug: "hensleigh-wedgwood"
description: "Hensleigh Wedgwood was a British etymologist, philologist and barrister, author of A Dictionary of English Etymology. He was a cousin of Charles Darwin, whom his sister Emma married in 1839."
tagline: "British etymologist (1803-1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hensleigh_Wedgwood_spiritualist.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1803-01-21"
deathDate: "1891-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.64516129032258
  historical:           3.939921333333333
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  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "هينسليج ويدجود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensleigh_Wedgwood"
    title: "Hensleigh Wedgwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensleigh_Wedgwood"
    title: "Hensleigh Wedgwood"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensleigh_Wedgwood"
    title: "Hensleigh Wedgwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump