# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-prinsep
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:27.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-prinsep"
name: "John Prinsep"
slug: "john-prinsep"
description: "John Prinsep was born the son of a vicar in rural Oxfordshire, England. With limited horizons for advancement, he joined the East India Company as a cadet, travelling to Bombay, and was soon engaged in mercantile pursuits, eventually becoming the earliest British merchant to plant indigo, and becoming extremely wealthy in the process. Prinsep subsequently returned to England, where he became a London alderman and a member of parliament, but he eventually lost both large fortunes he created. He was the progenitor of an Anglo-Indian family of merchants, all of whom were artistically gifted."
tagline: "British merchant"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fe/Prinsep_new_writerEICservice1822.jpg/330px-Prinsep_new_writerEICservice1822.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1746-04-23"
deathDate: "1830-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.5
  momentum:             8.4375
  historical:           1.541829333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Prinsep"
    title: "John Prinsep"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14945518"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations