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Jonathan van der Werff

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Jonathan van der Werff, also known by his pen name James Ervine (died 1 April 2026), was a British soldier, judge, and author.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jonathan van der Werff” 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.