# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-rowan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:55:01.447Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-rowan"
name: "William Rowan"
slug: "william-rowan"
description: "Field Marshal Sir William Shearman Rowan, was a British Army officer. He served in the Peninsular War and then the Hundred Days, fighting at the Battle of Waterloo and taking part in an important charge led by Sir John Colborne against the Imperial Guard when he was wounded. He later assisted Colborne in Colborne's new role as Acting Governor General of British North America during the rebellions by the Patriote movement in 1837. Rowan returned to Canada as Commander-in-Chief, North America in which role he made an important conciliatory speech in response to the burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal by an angry mob in April 1849."
tagline: "British Field Marshal"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_William_Rowan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1789-06-18"
deathDate: "1879-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.42
  momentum:             9.377880184331799
  historical:           5.476782666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Rowan"
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    title: "ويليام روان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan"
    title: "William Rowan"
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    title: "Роуэн, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump