# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-bowdler
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:55:34.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-bowdler"
name: "Thomas Bowdler"
slug: "thomas-bowdler"
description: "Thomas Bowdler was an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, and for publishing other editions edited by himself. The two sought a version they considered more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children. Bowdler also published works representing an interested knowledge of continental Europe. His last work was an expurgation of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 with the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger. From his name derives the eponym verb bowdlerise or bowdlerize, meaning to expurgate or to censor something through the omission of elements deemed unsuited to children in literature, movies, and television."
tagline: "English physician and editor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bowdler-title-page.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1754-07-11"
deathDate: "1825-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.32
  momentum:             6.535433070866142
  historical:           11.39939333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "托马斯·鲍德勒"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توماس بودلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas Bowdler"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler"
    title: "Thomas Bowdler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler"
    title: "Thomas Bowdler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler"
    title: "Thomas Bowdler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler"
    title: "Thomas Bowdler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler"
    title: "Thomas Bowdler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler"
    title: "Thomas Bowdler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler"
    title: "Thomas Bowdler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Баудлер, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump