# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-beckford-of-somerley
# Generated: 2026-08-16T13:53:16.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-beckford-of-somerley"
name: "William Beckford of Somerley"
slug: "william-beckford-of-somerley"
description: "William Beckford of Somerley was a British planter and writer who wrote on the topography and conditions of slavery in the British colony of Jamaica and the history of France."
tagline: "Jamaican writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Beckford_of_Somerly_by_John_Miers.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1744"
deathDate: "1799-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.65
  momentum:             10.58823529411765
  historical:           4.606984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ويليام بيكفورد اوف سوميرلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beckford_von_Somerley"
    title: "William Beckford von Somerley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beckford_of_Somerley"
    title: "William Beckford of Somerley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beckford_di_Somerley"
    title: "William Beckford di Somerley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%92_%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88"
    title: "سومرلے کا ولیم بیک فورڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578022"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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