# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-hale
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:00:04.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-hale"
name: "Matthew Hale"
slug: "matthew-hale"
description: "Sir Matthew Hale was an influential English lawyer, most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. He occupied various public offices both under the Cromwellian Commonwealth and the Stuart Restoration. From 1671 until his retirement in 1676, he served as Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Hale is widely regarded as one of the key figures in the development of the common law."
tagline: "English jurist and scholar (1609–1676)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Sir_Matthew_Hale_Kt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1609-11-01"
deathDate: "1676-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.564041333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Matthew Hale"
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    title: "ماثيو ويليام (قاضي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماثيو ويليام (قاضى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale"
    title: "Matthew Hale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale"
    title: "Matthew Hale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale_(jurist)"
    title: "Matthew Hale (jurist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale"
    title: "Matthew Hale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale_(mai_shari'a)"
    title: "Matthew Hale (mai shari'a)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale_(b%C3%ADr%C3%B3)"
    title: "Matthew Hale (bíró)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale"
    title: "Matthew Hale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130059"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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