# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lingard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:33:48.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lingard"
name: "John Lingard"
slug: "john-lingard"
description: "John Lingard was an English Catholic priest and historian, the author of The History of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII, an eight-volume work published in 1819. Lingard was a teacher at the English College at Douai, and at the seminary at Crook Hall, and later St. Cuthbert's College. In 1811 he retired to Hornby in Lancashire to continue work on his writing."
tagline: "English historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Lingard%2C_PA05956.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1771-02-05"
deathDate: "1851-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.07
  momentum:             0.7446808510638299
  historical:           7.010908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "جون لينجارد"
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    title: "John Lingard"
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    title: "John Lingard"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lingard"
    title: "John Lingard"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5959147"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump