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Keith Macdonald

Scottish rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ108841155 ↗
Source-derived summary

Keith Roy Macdonald (13 May 1933 – 20 September 2021) was a Scottish rugby union player who played for the Barbarians and represented the national team.

He attended the High School of Dundee.

Macdonald died on 20 September 2021, at the age of 88, in Elie, Fife.

Editorial summary

“Keith Macdonald” enters the record as scottish rugby union player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Keith, Macdonald and Scottish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1933-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Keith, Macdonald and Scottish.
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Why this record matters

“Keith Macdonald” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Keith, Macdonald and Scottish 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 Apr 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q108841155. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1933 and 2021.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keith Macdonald” 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.