# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-gairdner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:43:37.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-gairdner"
name: "James Gairdner"
slug: "james-gairdner"
description: "James Gairdner was a British historian. He specialised in 15th-century and early Tudor history, and among other tasks edited the Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII series."
tagline: "Scottish archivist and historian, assistant keeper of the Public Record Office, London (1828-1912)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1828-03-22"
deathDate: "1912-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.805472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "جيمس جيردنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gairdner"
    title: "James Gairdner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gairdner"
    title: "James Gairdner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gairdner"
    title: "James Gairdner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%B9%E5%A7%86%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E7%9B%96%E5%B0%94%E7%BA%B3%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "詹姆斯·盖尔纳德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5749620"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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