# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-edmondstoune-aytoun
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:34:54.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-edmondstoune-aytoun"
name: "William Edmondstoune Aytoun"
slug: "william-edmondstoune-aytoun"
description: "William Edmondstoune \"W. E.\" Aytoun FRSE was a Scottish poet, lawyer by training, and professor of rhetoric and belles lettres at the University of Edinburgh. He published poetry, translation, prose fiction, criticism and satire and was a lifelong contributor to the Edinburgh literary periodical Blackwood's Magazine. He was also a collector of Scottish ballads."
tagline: "British writer and lawyer (1813-1865)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1813-06-21"
deathDate: "1865-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump