# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-phips
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:47:01.949Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-phips"
name: "William Phips"
slug: "william-phips"
description: "Major-General Sir William Phips was a treasure hunter, military officer, and colonial administrator from the New England Colonies. He was the first royally appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and the first native-born New Englander to be knighted. Phips was famous in his lifetime for recovering a large treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon but is perhaps best remembered today for establishing the court associated with the infamous Salem witch trials, which he grew unhappy with and was forced to prematurely disband after five months."
tagline: "First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1651-1695)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phips_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1651-02-02"
deathDate: "1695-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.150114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7%E8%8F%B2%E6%99%AE%E6%96%AF"
    title: "威廉·菲普斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phips"
    title: "William Phips"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phips"
    title: "William Phips"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phips"
    title: "William Phips"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ウィリアム・フィップス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phips"
    title: "William Phips"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phips"
    title: "William Phips"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phips"
    title: "William Phips"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%81%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Фипс, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1896325"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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