# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-burgess
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:46:51.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-burgess"
name: "Thomas Burgess"
slug: "thomas-burgess"
description: "Thomas Burgess was an English author, philosopher, Bishop of St Davids and Bishop of Salisbury, who was greatly influential in the development of the Church in Wales. He founded St David's College, Lampeter, was a founding member of the Odiham Agricultural Society, helped establish the Royal Veterinary College in London, and was the first president of the Royal Society of Literature."
tagline: "English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bishop_Burgess.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1756-11-18"
deathDate: "1837-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.62
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.605148
  currentAttention:     6.920000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Burgess"
    title: "Thomas Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Burgess_(Bischof)"
    title: "Thomas Burgess (Bischof)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Burgess_(bishop_of_Salisbury)"
    title: "Thomas Burgess (bishop of Salisbury)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Burgess_(%C3%A9v%C3%AAque)"
    title: "Thomas Burgess (évêque)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Burgess_(bishop%2C_born_1756)"
    title: "Thomas Burgess (bishop, born 1756)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2422789"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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