# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-clerk-of-eldin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:42:04.121Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-clerk-of-eldin"
name: "John Clerk of Eldin"
slug: "john-clerk-of-eldin"
description: "John Clerk of Eldin FRSE FSAScot was a Scottish merchant, author, artist, geologist and landowner. The 7th son of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, Bt, Clerk of Eldin was a figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, best remembered for his influential writings on naval tactics in the Age of Sail. A friend of geologist James Hutton, he was a brother-in-law of architect Robert Adam, and a great-great-uncle of physicist James Clerk Maxwell."
tagline: "Scottish merchant, naval author, artist, geologist and landowner; (1728-1812)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Clerk_of_Eldin_by_James_Saxon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1728-12-10"
deathDate: "1812-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.54
  momentum:             11.78571428571428
  historical:           3.938985333333333
  currentAttention:     65.47619047619047
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clerk_of_Eldin"
    title: "John Clerk of Eldin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clerk_de_Eldin"
    title: "John Clerk de Eldin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clerk_of_Eldin"
    title: "John Clerk of Eldin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clerk_o_Eldin"
    title: "John Clerk o Eldin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6226356"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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