# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rose-buckingham-selfridge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:56:40.797Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rose-buckingham-selfridge"
name: "Rose Buckingham Selfridge"
slug: "rose-buckingham-selfridge"
description: "Rosalie Amelia Selfridge was a property developer before becoming the wife of department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. A member of the wealthy Buckingham family of Chicago, she inherited a large amount of investment property. Well educated, she had traveled extensively by the time she met Marshall Field's retail executive Harry Selfridge in the late 1880s. After they were married, the couple remained in Chicago and Rose enjoyed society and her growing family. Later, they moved to London in 1907 when Harry built his new department store on Oxford Street. During World War I, she joined the Red Cross and operated part of their Dorset, England estate as a war-time convalescent hospital. Rose died there during the Spanish flu pandemic."
tagline: "Wife of Harry Gordon Selfridge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rosalie_Selfridge_circa_1910.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1860-07-05"
deathDate: "1918-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.458212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Selfridge"
    title: "Rose Selfridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Selfridge"
    title: "Rose Selfridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16059535"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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