# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-s-bristowe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:04:43.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-s-bristowe"
name: "W. S. Bristowe"
slug: "w-s-bristowe"
description: "William Syer Bristowe, who wrote under the name W. S. Bristowe, was an English naturalist, a prolific and popular scientific writer and authority on spiders. He was educated at Wellington College and Cambridge University and in 1921 went on a Cambridge University expedition to Jan Mayen led by James Mann Wordie. Two years later he went on another Cambridge University expedition, this time to Brazil."
tagline: "British scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1901-09-01"
deathDate: "1979-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.53
  momentum:             9.375
  historical:           5.669870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Syer_Bristowe"
    title: "William Syer Bristowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._S._Bristowe"
    title: "W. S. Bristowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._S._Bristowe"
    title: "W. S. Bristowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._S._Bristowe"
    title: "W. S. Bristowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Syer_Bristowe"
    title: "William Syer Bristowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Syer_Bristowe"
    title: "William Syer Bristowe"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568983"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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