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June Markham

British ice dancer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ516378 ↗
Source-derived summary

June Markham is a British ice dancer. With partner Courtney Jones, she is the 1957 & 1958 World champion and European champion.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “June Markham” as british ice dancer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around June, Markham and British.

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—1957, 1958—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with June, Markham and British providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “June Markham”, the useful work is to connect “british ice dancer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q516378. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1957 and 1958.

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This entry incorporates text from “June Markham” 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.