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Admiralty House

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2024
Entity authorityQ4683766 ↗
Source-derived summary

Admiralty House may refer to:

Admiralty House, Sydney, Australia

Admiralty House, Bermuda, including the four locations that served this function:

Rose Hill, Bermuda, St. George's

St. John's Hill (later Clarence Hill), a property at Spanish Point, Bermuda

Mount Wyndham, Bermuda, above Bailey's Bay

Admiralty House, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, now the Naval Museum of Halifax

Admiralty House, Mount Pearl, Canada, also known as Admiralty House Museum & Archives

Admiralty House, at Sheerness Dockyard, Kent, England

Admiralty House, London, England, the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, 1788–1964

Admiralty House, Mount Wise, England (formerly Government House)

Hamoaze House (Admiralty House from 1809 to 1934), Mount Wise, Plymouth, England

Het Admiraliteitshuis (The Admiralty House), Dokkum, Finland; see Admiralty of Friesland

Marble Hall (Hong Kong), from c.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Admiralty House” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Admiralty, House and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1788, 1964, 1809, 1934—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Admiralty, House and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 5, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4683766. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1788, 1964, 1809 and 1934.

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This entry incorporates text from “Admiralty House” 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.