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James de Visme

English cricketer (1791-1859)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ16066143 ↗
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James Edward de Visme (1791 – 12 November 1859) was an English cricketer associated with Marylebone Cricket Club who was active in the 1820s. He is recorded in one match in 1825, totalling 2 runs with a highest score of 1.

References

Bibliography

Haygarth, Arthur (1996) [1862]. Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826). Kennington: Frederick Lillywhite. ISBN 978-19-00592-23-9.

Haygarth, Arthur (1997) [1862]. Scores & Biographies, Volume 2 (1827–1840). Kennington: Frederick Lillywhite. ISBN 978-19-00592-23-9.

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“James de Visme” enters the record as english cricketer (1791-1859). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what James, Visme and English 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—1791, 1859, 1825, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1791. Its strongest next move is a source search built around James, Visme and English.
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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 Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16066143. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1791, 1859, 1825 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “James de Visme” 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.