# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-laird-clowes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:58:12.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-laird-clowes"
name: "William Laird Clowes"
slug: "william-laird-clowes"
description: "Sir William Laird Clowes was a British journalist and historian whose principal work was The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, a text that is still in print. He also wrote numerous technical pieces on naval technology and strategy and was also noted for his articles concerning racial politics in the Southern United States. Despite having trained as a lawyer, Clowes had always preferred literature and writing, publishing his first work in 1876 and becoming a full-time journalist in 1879. For the services rendered in his career, Clowes was knighted, awarded the gold medal of the United States Naval Institute and given a civil list pension. He died in Sussex in 1905 after years of ill-health."
tagline: "British journalist and historian (1856–1905)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William-laird-clowes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1856-02-01"
deathDate: "1905-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.03
  momentum:             2.441860465116279
  historical:           3.937185333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام لايرد كلويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Laird_Clowes"
    title: "William Laird Clowes"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Laird_Clowes"
    title: "William Laird Clowes"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Laird_Clowes"
    title: "William Laird Clowes"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2579648"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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