# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oliver-elton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:00:02.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oliver-elton"
name: "Oliver Elton"
slug: "oliver-elton"
description: "Oliver Elton, FBA was an English literary scholar whose works include A Survey of English Literature (1730–1880) in six volumes, criticism, biography, and translations from several languages including Icelandic and Russian. He was King Alfred Professor of English at Liverpool University. He also helped set up the Department of English at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan."
tagline: "British academic (1861–1945)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1861-06-03"
deathDate: "1945-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.09
  momentum:             15.3
  historical:           3.937041333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "اوليڤير التون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Elton"
    title: "Oliver Elton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Elton"
    title: "Oliver Elton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Elton"
    title: "Oliver Elton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3881799"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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