# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-thomas-mercer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:13:34.464Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-thomas-mercer"
name: "William Thomas Mercer"
slug: "william-thomas-mercer"
description: "William Thomas Mercer (Chinese: 孖沙; Sidney Lau: Ma1 Sa1) (17 October 1821 – 23 May 1879) was a British colonial administrator who served in Hong Kong from 1844 to 1866."
tagline: "British colonial administrator (1821-1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Thomas_MERCER.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1821-10-17"
deathDate: "1879-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.473326666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ויליאם תומאס מרסר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليام توماس ميرسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Mercer"
    title: "William Thomas Mercer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%96%E6%B2%99"
    title: "孖沙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "ولیم تھامس مرسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BA%A5_(%E7%B6%93%E6%AD%B7%E5%8F%B8)"
    title: "麥 (經歷司)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1012601"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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