# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-bellingham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:55:34.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-bellingham"
name: "Richard Bellingham"
slug: "richard-bellingham"
description: "Richard Bellingham was a colonial magistrate, lawyer, and several-time governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the last surviving signatory of the colonial charter at his death. A wealthy lawyer in Lincolnshire prior to his departure for the New World in 1634, he was a liberal political opponent of the moderate John Winthrop, arguing for expansive views on suffrage and lawmaking, but also religiously somewhat conservative, opposing the efforts of Quakers and Baptists to settle in the colony. He was one of the architects of the Massachusetts Body of Liberties, a document embodying many sentiments also found in the United States Bill of Rights."
tagline: "Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Bellingham.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1592"
deathDate: "1672-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.3
  momentum:             0.2797202797202797
  historical:           5.682542666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Беллингем, Ричард"
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    title: "Richard Bellingham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump