# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-day
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:35:23.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-day"
name: "Thomas Day"
slug: "thomas-day"
description: "Thomas Day was an English writer, lawyer and abolitionist. He was well known for the book The History of Sandford and Merton (1783–1789) which emphasized Rousseauvian educational ideals, for his writings against slavery, for campaigning both for and against American independence, and for his project applying his educational ideals to young girls with the aim of raising a wife for himself."
tagline: "English author and political campaigner (1748-1789)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Day_by_Joseph_Wright.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1748-06-22"
deathDate: "1789-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.02
  momentum:             2.991128010139417
  historical:           9.903566666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thomas Day"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(Schriftsteller%2C_1748)"
    title: "Thomas Day (Schriftsteller, 1748)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(writer)"
    title: "Thomas Day (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day"
    title: "Thomas Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(Royaume-Uni)"
    title: "Thomas Day (Royaume-Uni)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1_%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump