# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-gaskell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:29:41.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-gaskell"
name: "William Gaskell"
slug: "william-gaskell"
description: "William Gaskell was an English Unitarian minister, charity worker and pioneer in the education of the working class. The husband of novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, he was himself a writer and poet, and acted as the longest-serving Chair of the Portico Library from 1849 to his death in 1884."
tagline: "British minister (1805-1884)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Gaskell_(photo_R_Potter).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1805-07-24"
deathDate: "1884-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.31
  momentum:             0.9202453987730062
  historical:           2.4243
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  36
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaskell"
    title: "William Gaskell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaskell"
    title: "William Gaskell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8009712"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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