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John Cunningham (cricketer)

New Zealand cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ25209717 ↗
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John Cunningham (18 November 1854 – 20 August 1932) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played one first-class match for Taranaki in 1882/83.

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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—1854, 1932, 1882—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1854-11-18. The account is most persuasive where John, Cunningham and cricketer can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as new Zealand cricketer. 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 Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25209717. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1854, 1932 and 1882.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Cunningham (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.