# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-ritchie-sorley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:55:52.884Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-ritchie-sorley"
name: "William Ritchie Sorley"
slug: "william-ritchie-sorley"
description: "William Ritchie Sorley, FBA, usually cited as W. R. Sorley, was a Scottish philosopher. A Gifford Lecturer, he was one of the thinkers of the British idealist school, with interests in ethics. He was opposed to women being admitted as students to the University of Cambridge."
tagline: "British philosopher (1855–1935)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1855-11-04"
deathDate: "1935-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.803744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "وليام ريتشي سورلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ويليام ريتكى سورلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ritchie_Sorley"
    title: "William Ritchie Sorley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ritchie_Sorley"
    title: "William Ritchie Sorley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ritchie_Sorley"
    title: "William Ritchie Sorley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1771574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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