# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-pennant-barton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:52:58.467Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-pennant-barton"
name: "Thomas Pennant Barton"
slug: "thomas-pennant-barton"
description: "Thomas Pennant Barton was an American diplomat and bibliophile who is primarily remembered for the collection of books by and relating to William Shakespeare and English drama that he amassed between 1834 and 1869. Four years after his death, Barton's collection was acquired by the Boston Public Library, where it has remained ever since."
tagline: "(1803-1869)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Thomas_Pennant_Barton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1803"
deathDate: "1869"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           31.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.535169333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pennant_Barton"
    title: "Thomas Pennant Barton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25035976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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