# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-tritton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:37:51.219Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-tritton"
name: "William Tritton"
slug: "william-tritton"
description: "Sir William Ashbee Tritton, JP, was a British expert in agricultural machinery, and was directly involved, together with Major Walter Gordon Wilson in the development of the tank. Early in World War I he was asked to produce tractors for moving heavy howitzers, the result being eventually the first tanks."
tagline: "British engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Le_Miroir_n%C2%B0_213%2C_p._10._William_Tritton_(1917)_-_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1875-06-19"
deathDate: "1946-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.687726666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Tritton"
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    title: "William Tritton"
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    title: "William Tritton"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tritton"
    title: "William Tritton"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tritton"
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    title: "Триттон, Уильям"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump