# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-theodore-watts-dunton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:28:00.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-theodore-watts-dunton"
name: "Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton"
slug: "walter-theodore-watts-dunton"
description: "Theodore Watts-Dunton, from St Ives, Huntingdonshire, was an English poetry critic with major periodicals, and himself a poet. He is remembered particularly as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism and drug use and persuaded to continue writing."
tagline: "English literary critic and poet (1832-1914)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Theodore.watts-dunton.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1832-10-12"
deathDate: "1914-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.75
  momentum:             2.264069264069264
  historical:           5.945357333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump