# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/l-t-c-rolt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:57:12.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/l-t-c-rolt"
name: "L. T. C. Rolt"
slug: "l-t-c-rolt"
description: "Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures, including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways, and was an enthusiast for vintage cars and heritage railways. He played a pioneering role in both the canal and railway preservation movements."
tagline: "English historian and biographer (1910–1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/L.T.C._Rolt_Blue_Plaque.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1910-02-11"
deathDate: "1974-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.62
  momentum:             0.7258064516129031
  historical:           5.689058666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._T._C._Rolt"
    title: "L. T. C. Rolt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rolt"
    title: "Tom Rolt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._T._C._Rolt"
    title: "L. T. C. Rolt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC"
    title: "Ролт, Том"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E3%83%BBT%E3%83%BBC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88"
    title: "L・T・C・ロルト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._T._C._%EB%A1%A4%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "L. T. C. 롤트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1797795"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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