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Kenneth Masser

British rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2023
Entity authorityQ56065159 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kenneth "Bill" Masser (born 29 April 1933) is a British rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.

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“Kenneth Masser” enters the record as british rower. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kenneth, Masser and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1933-04-29. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kenneth, Masser and British.
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“Kenneth Masser” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kenneth, Masser and British provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q56065159. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1933 and 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kenneth Masser” 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.