# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-pengelly
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:54:24.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-pengelly"
name: "William Pengelly"
slug: "william-pengelly"
description: "William Pengelly, FRS FGS was a British geologist and amateur archaeologist who was one of the first to contribute proof that the Biblical chronology of the earth calculated by Archbishop James Ussher was incorrect."
tagline: "British geologist (1812–1894)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Pengelly_(1812%E2%80%931894)%2C_FRS%2C_FGS_1881%2C_by_Arthur_S_Cope%2C_PTB_TMUS_PCF2-001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1812-01-12"
deathDate: "1894-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.048543689320389
  historical:           4.80558
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Pengelly"
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    title: "William Pengelly"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pengelly"
    title: "William Pengelly"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pengelly"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump