# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-francis-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:49:39.545Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-francis-davis"
name: "John Francis Davis"
slug: "john-francis-davis"
description: "Sir John Francis Davis, 1st Baronet was a British diplomat and sinologist who served as second Governor of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1848. Davis was the first President of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong."
tagline: "2nd Governor of Hong Kong (1795–1890)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Francis_Davis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1795-07-16"
deathDate: "1890-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.454545454545455
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump