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Freddie Whitbread

British boxer

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ58640510 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frederick William Whitbread (31 August 1892 – 1 January 1939) was a British boxer. He fought under the name Freddie Whitbread He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Freddie Whitbread” enters the record as british boxer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Freddie, Whitbread and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1939, 1920—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Freddie, Whitbread and British.
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Why this record matters

“Freddie Whitbread” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Freddie, Whitbread and British provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Mar 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q58640510. The first chronological checks are 1892, 1939 and 1920.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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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This entry incorporates text from “Freddie Whitbread” 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.