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Edward Griffith

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ5343186 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edward Griffith may refer to:

Edward Griffith (zoologist) (1790–1858), British naturalist and solicitor

Edward O. Griffith, British sculptor

Edward H. Griffith (1894–1975), American film director, screenwriter and producer

Edward Griffith (MP), member of parliament for Caernarfon

Teddy Griffith (born 1936), West Indian cricketer

Edward Griffith (American politician), American New York State Assembly member

See also

Edward Griffiths (disambiguation)

Edward Griffith Colpoys (c.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Edward Griffith” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1790, 1858, 1894, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Edward, Griffith and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5343186. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1790, 1858, 1894 and 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edward Griffith” 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.