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Gerald Stewart

New Zealand cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ101693594 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gerald Stewart (born 10 February 1936) is a New Zealand cricketer. He played in one first-class match for Northern Districts in 1968/69.

Editorial summary

“Gerald Stewart” enters the record as new Zealand cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gerald, Stewart and Zealand can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1936, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-02-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gerald, Stewart and Zealand.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q101693594. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936 and 1968.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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 “Gerald Stewart” 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.