# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-backhouse
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:12:01.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-backhouse"
name: "Roger Backhouse"
slug: "roger-backhouse"
description: "Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse, was a Royal Navy officer. He served in the First World War as a cruiser commander and after the war became a battle squadron commander and later Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet. Becoming First Sea Lord in November 1938, his major contribution in that role was to abandon the official British policy of sending a major fleet to Singapore to deter Japanese aggression, realising the immediate threat was closer to home and that such a policy was no longer viable. He died from a brain tumour in July 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War."
tagline: "Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1878-1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rbackhouse.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1878-11-24"
deathDate: "1939-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.3
  momentum:             0.2786377708978328
  historical:           7.411952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Роджер Бекхауз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Backhouse"
    title: "Roger Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Backhouse"
    title: "Roger Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Backhouse"
    title: "Roger Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راجر بک‌هاوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Backhouse"
    title: "Roger Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Backhouse"
    title: "Roger Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Backhouse"
    title: "Roger Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2031097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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