# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-esslemont
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:48.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-esslemont"
name: "John Esslemont"
slug: "john-esslemont"
description: "John Ebenezer Esslemont M.B., Ch.B., from Scotland, was a prominent British adherent of the Baháʼí Faith. Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith, posthumously named Esslemont a Hand of the Cause of God, one of the Disciples of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, and one of the United Kingdom's three luminaries of the Baháʼí Faith. He was the author of one of the foremost introductory texts on the Baháʼí Faith and worked as a translator of Baháʼí texts near the end of his life. In addition to his work for the Baháʼí Faith, Esslemont was an accomplished physician, as well as a linguist, proficient in English, French, Spanish, German, Esperanto, and later Persian and Arabic. Dr Esslemont died of tuberculosis in Palestine in 1925."
tagline: "British Hand of the Cause (1874-1925)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-05-19"
deathDate: "1925-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.392156862745098
  historical:           6.144709333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Esslemont"
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    title: "John Esslemont"
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    title: "John Esslemont"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Esslemont"
    title: "John Esslemont"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Esslemont"
    title: "John Esslemont"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump