# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-wilkes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:47:02.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-wilkes"
name: "John Wilkes"
slug: "john-wilkes"
description: "John Wilkes was a British radical, journalist, politician, magistrate and writer. He was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his voters – rather than the House of Commons – to determine their representatives. In 1768, angry protests of his supporters were suppressed in the Massacre of St George's Fields. In 1771, he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776, he introduced the first bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament."
tagline: "English radical, journalist, and politician (1725–1797)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Wilkes_after_Richard_Houston.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1725-10-17"
deathDate: "1797-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.408426483233018
  historical:           23.16911333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump