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Harold Griffith (Barbadian cricketer)

Barbadian cricketer (1921-2004)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ102160952 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harold Griffith (21 June 1921 – 6 November 2004) was a Barbadian cricketer. He played in nine first-class matches for the Barbados cricket team from 1943 to 1947.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Harold Griffith (Barbadian cricketer)” is barbadian cricketer (1921-2004). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Harold, Griffith and Barbadian, 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—1921, 2004, 1943, 1947—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-06-21. For this dossier, Harold, Griffith and Barbadian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “barbadian cricketer (1921-2004)” 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.

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 Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q102160952. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2004, 1943 and 1947.

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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 “Harold Griffith (Barbadian cricketer)” 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.