# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:49:09.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-williams"
name: "Howard Williams"
slug: "howard-williams"
description: "Howard Williams was an English writer and historian. He was an advocate for humanitarianism, vegetarianism, and an opponent of vivisection. He is best known for The Ethics of Diet (1883), a historical survey of European vegetarianism that has been described as a classic of vegetarian literature and cited as an influence on the late Victorian vegetarian movement. Earlier he published The Superstitions of Witchcraft (1865), a study of the history and social effects of witchcraft beliefs. His other publications included a study of eighteenth-century letter writing centred on Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope (1885), and a translation with notes of selected dialogues by Lucian (1887)."
tagline: "English writer and historian (1837–1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Williams_vegetarian.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1837-01-06"
deathDate: "1931-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.09
  momentum:             6.616972477064222
  historical:           3.737401333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Williams_(humanitarian)"
    title: "Howard Williams (humanitarian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Williams_(attivista)"
    title: "Howard Williams (attivista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_Williams_(humanitarian)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_Williams"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15442840"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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