# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-prior-baron-prior
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:29:38.594Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-prior-baron-prior"
name: "James Prior, Baron Prior"
slug: "james-prior-baron-prior"
description: "James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, was a British Conservative Party politician. A Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1987, he represented the Suffolk constituency of Lowestoft until 1983 and then the renamed constituency of Waveney from 1983 to 1987, when he stood down from the House of Commons and was made a life peer. He served in two Conservative cabinets, and outside parliament was Chairman of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2004, and Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University from 1992 to 1999."
tagline: "British politician (1927-2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/James-Michael-Leathes-Prior-Baron-Prior.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1927-10-11"
deathDate: "2016-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.31069466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Прайор, Джеймс"
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    title: "Jim Prior"
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    title: "James Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Prior"
    title: "Jim Prior"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prior"
    title: "James Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prior"
    title: "James Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Prior"
    title: "Jim Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%90_%ED%94%84%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%EC%96%B4"
    title: "짐 프라이어"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Prior"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Prior"
    title: "Jim Prior"
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    title: "James Prior"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump