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Arthur Wolffsohn

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2023
Entity authorityQ86004269 ↗
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Sir Arthur Norman Wolffsohn, CMG, OBE (30 September 1888 – 17 November 1967) was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Honduras from 1954 to 1961.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1888, 1967, 1954, 1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Arthur, Wolffsohn and Open-knowledge.
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This entry incorporates text from “Arthur Wolffsohn” 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.