# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-sydney-yorke
# Generated: 2026-09-02T01:34:21.224Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-sydney-yorke"
name: "Joseph Sydney Yorke"
slug: "joseph-sydney-yorke"
description: "Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke KCB was an officer of the Royal Navy. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of the Saintes in April 1782 during the American Revolutionary War. He commanded HMS Stag at the defeat of the Dutch fleet in August 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars and went on to be First Naval Lord during the closing stages of the Napoleonic Wars."
tagline: "British Vice-Admiral (1768-1831)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Sydney_Yorke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1768-06-06"
deathDate: "1831-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.02
  momentum:             11.77215189873418
  historical:           5.473362666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sydney_Yorke"
    title: "Joseph Sydney Yorke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "چوزيف سيدنى يورك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sydney_Yorke"
    title: "Joseph Sydney Yorke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sidney_Yorke"
    title: "Joseph Sidney Yorke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sydney_Yorke"
    title: "Joseph Sydney Yorke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sidney_Yorke"
    title: "Joseph Sidney Yorke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6249777"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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