# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-borlase
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:48:05.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-borlase"
name: "William Borlase"
slug: "william-borlase"
description: "William Borlase, was a Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist. From 1722, he was Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall, where he died. He is remembered for his works The Antiquities of Cornwall and The Natural History of Cornwall (1758), although his plans for a parish-by-parish county history were abandoned."
tagline: "English antiquarian, geologist and naturalist (1695-1772)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Borlase_(1695%E2%80%931772)_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1695-02-02"
deathDate: "1772-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.273002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Borlase"
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    title: "ویلیام بورلاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Borlase"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Borlase"
    title: "William Borlase"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Borlase"
    title: "William Borlase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450914"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump