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Jimmy Dobson

rugby player (1888-1962)

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ87073762 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jimmy Dobson (23 November 1888 – 14 March 1962) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played at the Wing position.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Dobson played for Glasgow Academicals.

Provincial career

He was capped by Glasgow District in 1906.

International career

Dobson was capped by Scotland for just one match.

Editorial summary

“Jimmy Dobson” enters the record as rugby player (1888-1962). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jimmy, Dobson 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—1888, 1962, 1906—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1888-11-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jimmy, Dobson and rugby.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Jimmy Dobson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jimmy, Dobson and rugby provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q87073762. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1888, 1962 and 1906.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

How to read it

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Jimmy Dobson” 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.