# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-nicholson-1st-baron-nicholson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:23:29.164Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-nicholson-1st-baron-nicholson"
name: "William Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson"
slug: "william-nicholson-1st-baron-nicholson"
description: "Field Marshal William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson, was a British Army officer who served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Mahdist War, the Third Anglo-Burmese War, the Second Boer War and the First World War. He became Chief of the Imperial General Staff and was closely involved in the reorganisation of the British Army in the early years of the 20th century."
tagline: "British Army officer (1845-1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicholson-1898_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1845-03-02"
deathDate: "1918-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.24
  momentum:             5.621087827067377
  historical:           7.214148
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Nicholson, 1. Baron Nicholson"
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    title: "William Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson"
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    title: "ویلیام گوستاووس نیکلسون، بارون اول نیکلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholson_(1er_baron_Nicholson)"
    title: "William Nicholson (1er baron Nicholson)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump