# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/talbot-baines-reed
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:17:40.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/talbot-baines-reed"
name: "Talbot Baines Reed"
slug: "talbot-baines-reed"
description: "Talbot Baines Reed was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. He was a regular and prolific contributor to The Boy's Own Paper (B.O.P.), in which most of his fiction first appeared. Through his family's business, Reed became a prominent typefounder, and wrote a standard work on the subject: History of the Old English Letter Foundries."
tagline: "English author (1852-1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TalbotBainesReed.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1852-04-03"
deathDate: "1893-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.34
  momentum:             0.7109004739336493
  historical:           5.474802666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_Baines_Reed"
    title: "Talbot Baines Reed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "تالبوت بينز ريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF"
    title: "تالبوت باینز رید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talbot_Baines_Reed"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_Baines_Reed"
    title: "Talbot Baines Reed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_Baines_Reed"
    title: "Talbot Baines Reed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7679011"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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