# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-byrom
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:49:59.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-byrom"
name: "John Byrom"
slug: "john-byrom"
description: "John Byrom, John Byrom of Kersal, or John Byrom of Manchester was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. He is most remembered as the writer of the lyrics of Anglican hymn \"Christians, awake, salute the happy morn\", which was supposedly a Christmas gift for his daughter."
tagline: "English poet and inventor of a shorthand system"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Byrom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1692-02-29"
deathDate: "1763-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.682902666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e271c7fd-dbee-4448-90f0-5da1f76b8f2c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrom"
    title: "John Byrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrom_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "John Byrom (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrom"
    title: "John Byrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrom"
    title: "John Byrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrom"
    title: "John Byrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrom"
    title: "John Byrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byrom"
    title: "John Byrom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Byrom"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1360179"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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