# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gibson-lockhart
# Generated: 2026-09-02T07:00:11.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gibson-lockhart"
name: "John Gibson Lockhart"
slug: "john-gibson-lockhart"
description: "John Gibson Lockhart was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the seminal, and much-admired, seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. He produced four novels in the early 1820s including Adam Blair and Reginald Dalton."
tagline: "Scottish writer and editor (1794-1854)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Grant_(1803-1878)_-_John_Gibson_Lockhart_(1794%E2%80%931854)%2C_Son-in-Law_and_Biographer_of_Scott_-_PG_1588_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1794-07-14"
deathDate: "1854-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.217064
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump