# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-jenkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:29:23.610Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-jenkins"
name: "Robert Jenkins"
slug: "robert-jenkins"
description: "Robert Jenkins was a Welsh master mariner from Llanelli, famous as the protagonist of the \"Jenkins's ear\" incident, which became a contributory cause of the War of Jenkins' Ear between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain in 1739."
tagline: "British master mariner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Captain_Jenkins_shows_his_ear_to_Robert_Walpole_cartoon%2C_1738_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1700"
deathDate: "1745"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.912890666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%8F%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Роберт Џенкинс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cenkins"
    title: "Robert Cenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenkins_(Kapit%C3%A4n)"
    title: "Robert Jenkins (Kapitän)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenkins_(master_mariner)"
    title: "Robert Jenkins (master mariner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenkins"
    title: "Robert Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenkins_(merimies)"
    title: "Robert Jenkins (merimies)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenkins"
    title: "Robert Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenkins"
    title: "Robert Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%BA)"
    title: "Дженкинс, Роберт (моряк)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1536332"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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