# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-tytler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:10:04.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-tytler"
name: "William Tytler"
slug: "william-tytler"
description: "William Tytler WS FRSE (1711–1792) was a Scottish lawyer, known as a historical writer. He wrote An Inquiry into the Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots, against the views of William Robertson. He discovered the manuscript the \"Kingis Quhair\", a poem of James I of Scotland. In 1783 he was one of the joint founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh."
tagline: "Scottish lawyer and writer (1711-1792)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Tytler_Jones.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1711-10-12"
deathDate: "1792-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.069006666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  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%AA%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "وليام تيتلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tytler"
    title: "William Tytler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tytler"
    title: "William Tytler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8019613"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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