# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/west-ridgeway
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:47:56.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/west-ridgeway"
name: "West Ridgeway"
slug: "west-ridgeway"
description: "Sir Joseph West Ridgeway,, known as Sir West Ridgeway, was a British civil servant and colonial governor. He was involved in the MacDonald Affair, when sodomy and child molestation charges were brought against Hector Archibald MacDonald, commander of British forces in British Ceylon. He brought MacDonald back to England hoping to avoid a scandal, but MacDonald still committed suicide."
tagline: "British civil servant and colonial administrator (1844-1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_West_Ridgeway.tiff?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1844-05-16"
deathDate: "1930-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.49
  momentum:             13
  historical:           5.672210666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_West_Ridgeway"
    title: "Joseph West Ridgeway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "ويست ريدجواى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_West_Ridgeway"
    title: "Joseph West Ridgeway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Ridgeway"
    title: "West Ridgeway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_West_Ridgeway"
    title: "Joseph West Ridgeway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ridgeway"
    title: "Joseph Ridgeway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q527319"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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