# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-drummond
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:24:33.572Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-drummond"
name: "Thomas Drummond"
slug: "thomas-drummond"
description: "Captain Thomas Drummond, from Edinburgh was a Scottish British Army officer, civil engineer and senior public official. He used the Drummond light which was employed in the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland. He is sometimes mistakenly given credit for the invention of limelight, at the expense of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney. It was Drummond, however, who realised its value in surveying."
tagline: "British engineer (1797-1840)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Drummond.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1797-10-10"
deathDate: "1840-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.51
  momentum:             0.1158301158301158
  historical:           9.409432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Thomas Drummond"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Drummond"
    title: "Thomas Drummond"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Drummond_(ingeniero)"
    title: "Thomas Drummond (ingeniero)"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Drummond"
    title: "Thomas Drummond"
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    title: "Thomas Drummond"
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    title: "Thomas Drummond"
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    title: "Друммонд, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Drummond"
    title: "Thomas Drummond"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Drummond"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump