# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-bridges
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:16:15.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-bridges"
name: "Thomas Bridges"
slug: "thomas-bridges"
description: "Thomas Bridges was an Anglican missionary and linguist, the first to set up a successful mission to the indigenous peoples in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago shared by Argentina and Chile. Adopted and raised in England by George Pakenham Despard, he accompanied his father to Chile with the Patagonian Missionary Society. After an attack by indigenous people, in 1859 Bridges' father, Despard, left the mission at Keppel Island of the Falkland Islands, to return with his family to England. At the age of 17, Bridges stayed with the mission as its new superintendent. In the late 1860s, he worked to set up a mission at what is now the town of Ushuaia along the southern shore of Tierra del Fuego Island."
tagline: "British missionary (1842–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Bridges.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Argentina"
  isoCode: "AR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1842"
deathDate: "1898-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.086754666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bridges"
    title: "Thomas Bridges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bridges_(missionary)"
    title: "Thomas Bridges (missionary)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bridges"
    title: "Thomas Bridges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bridges"
    title: "Thomas Bridges"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bridges_(missionnaire_anglican)"
    title: "Thomas Bridges (missionnaire anglican)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bridges"
    title: "Thomas Bridges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bridges"
    title: "Thomas Bridges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bridges"
    title: "Thomas Bridges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1370677"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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