# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-spencer-baynes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:01:30.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-spencer-baynes"
name: "Thomas Spencer Baynes"
slug: "thomas-spencer-baynes"
description: "Thomas Spencer Baynes was an English writer and scholar. He was best known for serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopædia Britannica. He was also well known for his essays in the Edinburgh Review and Fraser's Magazine."
tagline: "English philosopher and editor (1823–1887)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Spencer_Baynes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1823-03-24"
deathDate: "1887-05-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.32
  momentum:             7.894736842105262
  historical:           5.00342
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Thomas Spencer Baynes"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Spencer_Baynes"
    title: "Thomas Spencer Baynes"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Spencer_Baynes"
    title: "Thomas Spencer Baynes"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Spencer_Baynes"
    title: "Thomas Spencer Baynes"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Spencer_Baynes"
    title: "Thomas Spencer Baynes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump