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Walter Druce

British cricketer (1872-1963)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ43792468 ↗
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Walter George Druce (16 September 1872 – 8 January 1963) was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and other amateur teams between 1894 and 1913. He was born at Denmark Hill in London (then counted as part of Surrey) and died at Sherborne, Dorset.

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The public source identifies “Walter Druce” as british cricketer (1872-1963). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Walter, Druce and British.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1872, 1963, 1894, 1913—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1872-09-16. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Walter, Druce and British 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 Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43792468. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1872, 1963, 1894 and 1913.

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This entry incorporates text from “Walter Druce” 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.