# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-vesey-hamilton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:18:48.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-vesey-hamilton"
name: "Richard Vesey Hamilton"
slug: "richard-vesey-hamilton"
description: "Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he twice volunteered to take part in missions to search for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage. He also took part in the Battle of Fatshan Creek in June 1857 during the Second Opium War."
tagline: "Royal Navy admiral (1829-1912)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Admiral_Sir_Richard_Vesey_Hamilton_(by_Fradelle_and_Young).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1829-05-28"
deathDate: "1912-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.72
  momentum:             3.2
  historical:           3.935709333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Vesey_Hamilton"
    title: "Richard Vesey Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Vesey_Hamilton"
    title: "Richard Vesey Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesey_Hamilton"
    title: "Vesey Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Vesey_Hamilton"
    title: "Richard Vesey Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7329664"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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