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Cyril Pearce

Footballer (1908-1990)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ10555946 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cyril Pearce (28 January 1908 – 1990) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Charlton Athletic, Newport County and Swansea Town.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Cyril Pearce” as footballer (1908-1990). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cyril, Pearce and Footballer.

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—1908, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1908-01-28. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cyril, Pearce and Footballer providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Cyril Pearce”, the useful work is to connect “footballer (1908-1990)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 Jan 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10555946. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1908 and 1990.

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.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Cyril Pearce”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cyril Pearce primary sources, Cyril Pearce archive and Cyril research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  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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  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Cyril Pearce” 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.