# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-percivale
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:26:02.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-percivale"
name: "Richard Percivale"
slug: "richard-percivale"
description: "Sir Richard Percivale of Sydenham, near Bridgwater, Somerset, was an English administrator and politician, also known as a Hispanist and lexicographer. He wrote a Spanish grammar for English readers, A Spanish Grammar, and a dictionary, both included in his Bibliotheca Hispanica (1591); this work was later enlarged by John Minsheu in A dictionarie in Spanish and English."
tagline: "English scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Perceval_(1556-1621)%2C_of_Twickenham%2C_Somerset%2C_manner_of_Marcus_Gheeraerts_the_Younger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1558"
deathDate: "1620-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.981981981981982
  historical:           5.471454666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard Perceval"
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    title: "ريتشارد پيرسيڤال"
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    title: "Richard Percivale"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Percivale"
    title: "Richard Percivale"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Percivale"
    title: "Richard Percivale"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Percivale"
    title: "Richard Percivale"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump