# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-roscoe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:35:42.388Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-roscoe"
name: "William Roscoe"
slug: "william-roscoe"
description: "William Roscoe was a British banker, lawyer and politician. He is best known as one of England's first abolitionists, and as the author of the poem for children The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast. In his day he was also respected as a historian and art collector, as well as a botanist and miscellaneous writer. The standard author abbreviation Roscoe is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name."
tagline: "English historian, abolitionist, art collector, politician, lawyer, banker, botanist and writer (1753-1831)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin_Archer_Shee_-_William_Roscoe_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1753-03-08"
deathDate: "1831-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.76144933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "威廉·羅斯科"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام روسكو"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe"
    title: "William Roscoe"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe"
    title: "William Roscoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe"
    title: "William Roscoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe"
    title: "William Roscoe"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe"
    title: "William Roscoe"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe"
    title: "William Roscoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe"
    title: "William Roscoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe"
    title: "William Roscoe"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe"
    title: "William Roscoe"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2635090"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump