# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-meadows-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:58:44.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-meadows-taylor"
name: "Philip Meadows Taylor"
slug: "philip-meadows-taylor"
description: "Philip Meadows Taylor was a British officer and administrator in the Hyderabad state, and later British India. He was also a novelist, best known for his 1839 bestseller Confessions of a Thug, and an amateur archaeologist. After Confessions of a Thug, Taylor wrote a series of historical romance novels set against the backdrop of important events in Indian history."
tagline: "Administrator and novelist (1808–1876)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MeadowsTaylor_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1808-09-25"
deathDate: "1876-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.78
  momentum:             4.444444444444442
  historical:           5.080958666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ఫిలిప్ మెడోస్ టైలర్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "फ़िलिप मिडोज टेलर"
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    title: "ಮೆಡೋಸ್ ಟೇಲರ್"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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