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Hugh Taylor (rugby union)

Australian rugby union player (1894–1956)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ5932841 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hugh Carlyle Taylor (4 December 1900 – 17 November 1970) was an Australian rugby union player and represented for the Wallabies four times.

He attended Newington College (1906–1913) and St Andrew's College within the University of Sydney. In 1944, Taylor married Edith Jean Edwards in Mosman, New South Wales.

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“Hugh Taylor (rugby union)” enters the record as australian rugby union player (1894–1956). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hugh, Taylor and rugby can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900, 1970, 1906, 1913—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1894-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hugh, Taylor and rugby.
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“Hugh Taylor (rugby union)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hugh, Taylor and rugby provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5932841. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1900, 1970, 1906 and 1913.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hugh Taylor (rugby union)” 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.