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Abram Combe (rugby union)

rugby player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ130740997 ↗
Source-derived summary

Abram Combe (16 July 1852 — 20 August 1917) was an Irish international rugby union player.

Combe was born in Belfast, to a Scottish father, and attended Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

A foundation player for Belfast's North of Ireland club, Combe was capped once for Ireland, as a forward in their first ever international against England at The Oval in 1875.

Combe became an engineer like his father and was partner in the textile firm Combe Barbour & Combe Ltd.

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“Abram Combe (rugby union)” enters the record as rugby player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Abram, Combe and rugby can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1852, 1917, 1875—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1852-07-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Abram, Combe and rugby.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q130740997. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1852, 1917 and 1875.

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This entry incorporates text from “Abram Combe (rugby union)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.