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Ernest Wilson

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ5394020 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ernest Wilson may refer to:

Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930), English botanist, best known as E. H. Wilson

Ernest J. Wilson III (born c. 1948), American academic and research scholar

Ernest Wilson (English cricketer) (1907–1981), English cricketer

Ernest Wilson (New Zealand cricketer) (1877–1959), New Zealand cricketer

Ernest Wilson (singer) (1951–2021), Jamaican reggae singer

Ernest C. Wilson Jr.

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“Ernest Wilson” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ernest, Wilson and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1876, 1930, 1948, 1907—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ernest, Wilson and Wikimedia.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5394020. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1876, 1930, 1948 and 1907.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ernest Wilson” 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.