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Andrew Davidson (knight)

Scottish academic, footballer, public health official, royal physician and soldier (1892-1962)

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ109984458 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sir Andrew Davidson (12 March 1892 –13 March 1962) was an academic, footballer, public health official, royal physician and soldier. He was knighted in 1946.

There are five photographic portraits by Walter Stoneman in the National Portrait Gallery.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Andrew Davidson (knight)” as scottish academic, footballer, public health official, royal physician and soldier (1892-1962). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1962, 1946—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1892-03-12. The account is most persuasive where Andrew, Davidson and knight can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as scottish academic, footballer, public health official, royal physician and soldier (1892-1962). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109984458. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1892, 1962 and 1946.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Andrew Davidson (knight)” 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.