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John Fredrick Stoddart

Ceylonese judge

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ65951994 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Fredrick Stoddart (22 September 1805 – 29 August 1839) was a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Stoddart was the son of John Stoddart, Chief Justice of Malta.

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“John Fredrick Stoddart” enters the record as ceylonese judge. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what John, Fredrick and Stoddart can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1805, 1839—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1805-09-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around John, Fredrick and Stoddart.
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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 Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65951994. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1805 and 1839.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Fredrick Stoddart” 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.