# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hill-burton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:32:28.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hill-burton"
name: "John Hill Burton"
slug: "john-hill-burton"
description: "John Hill Burton FRSE was a Scottish advocate, historian and economist. The author of Life and Correspondence of David Hume, he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board (1854–1877), and Historiographer Royal (1867–1881)."
tagline: "British academic (1809-1881)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Hill_Burton_by_William_Brodie%2C_Dean_Cemetery.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1809-08-22"
deathDate: "1881-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           7.206228
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جون هيل بيرتون"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump