# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-h-gipson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:47:47.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-h-gipson"
name: "Lawrence H. Gipson"
slug: "lawrence-h-gipson"
description: "Lawrence Henry Gipson was an American historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History for volumes of his magnum opus, the fifteen-volume history of \"The British Empire Before the American Revolution\", published 1936–70. He was a leader of the \"Imperial school\" of historians who studied the British Empire from the perspective of London, and generally praised the administrative efficiency and political fairness of the Empire."
tagline: "American writer (1880–1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lawrence_Henry_Gipson_1938.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1880-12-07"
deathDate: "1971-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.62
  momentum:             2.647058823529412
  historical:           5.672858666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Lawrence H. Gipson"
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    title: "لورانس ه. جيبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Henry_Gipson"
    title: "Lawrence Henry Gipson"
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    title: "Lawrence Henry Gipson"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_H._Gipson"
    title: "Lawrence H. Gipson"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_H._Gipson"
    title: "Lawrence H. Gipson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1809194"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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