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John Goldham

English cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ11262771 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Goldham aka Goldhawk (dates unknown) was an English professional cricketer who made 35 known appearances in important matches from 1791 to 1812.

Career

He was mainly associated with Middlesex.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “John Goldham” is english cricketer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through John, Goldham and English, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1791, 1812—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, John, Goldham and English is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “english cricketer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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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 Jan 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11262771. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1791 and 1812.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Goldham” 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.