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Charles Conde

British association football player (1859-?)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ23991132 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charles Conde (1859 – March 1936) was a Welsh international footballer. He was part of the Wales national football team, playing 3 matches. He played his first match on 9 February 1884 against Ireland and his last match on 29 March 1884 against Scotland.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Charles Conde” as british association football player (1859-?). 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—1859, 1936, 1884—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1859. The account is most persuasive where Charles, Conde and British can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as british association football player (1859-?). 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 Oct 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23991132. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1859, 1936 and 1884.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Conde” 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.