# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-christopher-dancy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:08:00.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-christopher-dancy"
name: "John Christopher Dancy"
slug: "john-christopher-dancy"
description: "John Christopher Dancy was an English headmaster, at Lancing College, where he was appointed to improve academic standards, and Marlborough College, and academic. He was best known for his reforms at Marlborough, including a coeducational Sixth Form. In the Introduction to his 1972 book Progressives and Radicals, Stewart wrote:Some schools exemplify reform, but were not really regarded as radical: Rugby under Arnold, Shrewsbury under Butler, and Marlborough under Dancy."
tagline: "British schoolmaster and author"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1920-11-13"
deathDate: "2019-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.542693333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  29
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christopher_Dancy"
    title: "John Christopher Dancy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82023359"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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