# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-leland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:22:04.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-leland"
name: "Thomas Leland"
slug: "thomas-leland"
description: "Thomas Leland (1722–1785) was an Irish Anglican priest, a historian, translator and academic and the author of the early Gothic novel Longsword, Earl of Salisbury: An Historical Romance, published in 1762. Longsword is set in Gascony and in England, during the reign of Henry III of England."
tagline: "Irish historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Leland_.PNG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1722"
deathDate: "1785"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.60288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "توماس ليلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dtp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Leland"
    title: "Thomas Leland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Leland"
    title: "Thomas Leland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Leland"
    title: "Thomas Leland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Leland"
    title: "Thomas Leland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7791806"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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