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Ian Rees Davies

Hong Kong academic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ11075374 ↗
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William Ian Rees Davies (Chinese: 戴義安, 24 May 1942 – 24 July 2014) was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong in 2000–2002. He died of kidney failure in 2014.

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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—1942, 2014, 2000, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-05-24. The account is most persuasive where Rees, Davies and Hong can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as hong Kong academic. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Aug 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q11075374. VIAF identifies the subject as 94475900. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 2014, 2000 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ian Rees Davies” 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.