# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-askew
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:43:57.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-askew"
name: "William Askew"
slug: "william-askew"
description: "Sir William Askew was a gentleman at the court of Henry VIII of England. He was one of the jurors in the trial of Anne Boleyn and was the father of Anne Askew, one of only two women to be tortured at the Tower of London, along with Margaret Cheyne."
tagline: "English politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Ayscough_brass.jpg/330px-Ayscough_brass.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1490"
deathDate: "1541"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.535889333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Askew"
    title: "William Askew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8004626"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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