# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-davys-beresford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:59:07.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-davys-beresford"
name: "John Davys Beresford"
slug: "john-davys-beresford"
description: "John Davys Beresford was an English writer, now remembered mainly for his early science fiction and some short stories of the horror story and ghost story genres. Beresford was a great admirer of H. G. Wells, and wrote the first critical study of Wells in 1915. His Wellsian novel The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911) was a major influence for the author Olaf Stapledon. His other science-fiction novels include The Riddle of the Tower, about a dystopian, hive-like society."
tagline: "British writer (1873–1947)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/John_Davys_Beresford.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1873-03-17"
deathDate: "1947-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.551621333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3355523/"
    handle:    "nm3355523"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%92_%DA%88%DB%8C_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88"
    title: "جے ڈی بیریسفورڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Beresford"
    title: "J. D. Beresford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Beresford"
    title: "J. D. Beresford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.D._Beresford"
    title: "J.D. Beresford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Beresford"
    title: "J. D. Beresford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Бересфорд, Джон Дэвис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davys_Beresford"
    title: "John Davys Beresford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3156744"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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