# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/weetman-pearson-1st-viscount-cowdray
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:28:23.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/weetman-pearson-1st-viscount-cowdray"
name: "Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray"
slug: "weetman-pearson-1st-viscount-cowdray"
description: "Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray,, known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt from 1894 to 1910 and as Lord Cowdray from 1910 to 1927, was an English industrialist, benefactor and Liberal politician. He built S. Pearson & Son from a Yorkshire contractor into an international builder and created the Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company, a leading early 20th century oil producer. After selling Mexican Eagle in 1919, he reorganised his interests around Whitehall Securities, purchased a stake in Lazard Brothers, and expanded into newspapers. This latter move set the course for the later Pearson group's focus on publishing."
tagline: "British politician (1856-1927)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1st_Viscount_Cowdray.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1856-07-15"
deathDate: "1927-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.26
  momentum:             5.939086294416243
  historical:           6.769189333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D1%96%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Вітман Пірсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weetman_Pearson%2C_1st_Viscount_Cowdray"
    title: "Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weetman_Pearson"
    title: "Weetman Pearson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weetman_Pearson"
    title: "Weetman Pearson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3_(%E5%88%9D%E4%BB%A3%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E5%AD%90%E7%88%B5)"
    title: "ウィートマン・ピアソン (初代カウドレー子爵)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_1-%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Пирсон, Уитман, 1-й виконт Каудрей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weetman_Pearson%2C_1%3Ae_viscount_Cowdray"
    title: "Weetman Pearson, 1:e viscount Cowdray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5612753"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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