# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sotheby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:55:34.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sotheby"
name: "William Sotheby"
slug: "william-sotheby"
description: "William Sotheby FRS was an English poet and translator. He was born into a wealthy London family, the son of Col. William and Elizabeth Sotheby, and was educated at Harrow School and the Military Academy, Angers, France before joining the army at 17, where he served for six years until his marriage in 1780, when he devoted himself to literature."
tagline: "British translator (1757-1833)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/SOTHEBY%281825%29_Poems.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1756-11-09"
deathDate: "1833-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.935817333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "ويليام سوثيبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sotheby"
    title: "William Sotheby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sotheby"
    title: "William Sotheby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sotheby"
    title: "William Sotheby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018620"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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