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Tom Knight

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ7816490 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tom or Thomas Knight may refer to:

Politicians

Thomas Knight (Australian politician) (born 1935), Australian politician

Thomas Knight (MP for Shrewsbury) (c. 1475–1518/20), English politician

Thomas Knight (MP for Kent) (1735–1794), English politician

Thomas Knight (MP for Canterbury) (c. 1701–1781), English politician

Thomas E. Knight Jr.

Editorial summary

“Tom Knight” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Knight, Wikimedia and disambiguation 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—1935, 1475, 1518, 1735—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Knight, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Why this record matters

“Tom Knight” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Knight, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7816490. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1935, 1475, 1518 and 1735.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tom Knight” 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.