# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-hume-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:02:54.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-hume-brown"
name: "Peter Hume Brown"
slug: "peter-hume-brown"
description: "Peter Hume Brown, FBA was a Scottish historian and professor who played an important part in establishing Scottish history as a significant academic discipline. In addition to teaching and writing, he spent 16 years as editor of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, and served as Historiographer Royal."
tagline: "19th century Scottish historian and scholar (1849–1918)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/33/Peter_Hume_Brown.jpg/330px-Peter_Hume_Brown.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1849-12-17"
deathDate: "1918-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.72
  momentum:             0.2531645569620253
  historical:           3.069582666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بيتر هيوم براون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hume_Brown"
    title: "Peter Hume Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hume_Brown"
    title: "Peter Hume Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7174786"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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