# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-henry-preece
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:47:12.566Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-henry-preece"
name: "William Henry Preece"
slug: "william-henry-preece"
description: "Sir William Henry Preece was a Welsh electrical engineer and inventor. Preece relied on experiments and physical reasoning in his life's work. Upon his retirement from the Post Office in 1899, Preece was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1899 Birthday Honours. That same year, he was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society."
tagline: "British scientist (1834–1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Henry_Preece_mca.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1834-02-15"
deathDate: "1913-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             3.888888888888888
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Прис, Уильям Генри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump