# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mason-neale
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:36:58.716Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mason-neale"
name: "John Mason Neale"
slug: "john-mason-neale"
description: "John Mason Neale was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter. He worked on and wrote a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most famous hymns is the 1853 Good King Wenceslas, set on St. Stephen's day, known as Boxing Day in the UK. An Anglo-Catholic, Neale's works have found positive reception in high-church Anglicanism and Western Rite Orthodoxy."
tagline: "Anglican priest and hymnwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Mason_Neale.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1818-01-24"
deathDate: "1866-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.70206338349293
  historical:           13.627396
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump