# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-nathan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:18:19.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-nathan"
name: "Matthew Nathan"
slug: "matthew-nathan"
description: "Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Matthew Nathan was a British soldier and colonial administrator, who variously served as the governor of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Natal and Queensland. He was Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1914 to 1916, and was responsible, with the Chief Secretary, Augustine Birrell, for the administration of Ireland in the years immediately preceding the Easter Rising."
tagline: "British colonial administrator (1862–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Matthew_Nathan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1862-01-03"
deathDate: "1939-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Matthew Nathan"
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    title: "Matthew Nathan"
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    title: "מתיו נייתן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matthew Nathan"
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  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BD%8C%E6%95%A6"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump