# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-smyth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:11:36.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-smyth"
name: "William Smyth"
slug: "william-smyth"
description: "William Smyth was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions. He was a co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford and endowed a grammar school in the village of his birth in Lancashire."
tagline: "Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bishop_William_Smyth.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1460"
deathDate: "1514-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.06
  momentum:             0.5325443786982249
  historical:           4.606408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%82%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83)"
    title: "وليام سميث (قسيس كاتوليك)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smyth"
    title: "William Smyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smyth"
    title: "William Smyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smyth"
    title: "William Smyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smyth"
    title: "William Smyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3710010"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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