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Richard Setter

English politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ22336894 ↗
Source-derived summary

Richard Setter alias Milers (before 1390 – 1422) was an English politician.

Family

In 1410, he married Christine Plomer, the widow of another Wells MP, John Blithe.

Career

He was a member (MP) of the parliament of England for Wells in 1417, 1420 and 1422.

Editorial summary

“Richard Setter” enters the record as english politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Richard, Setter and English 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—1390, 1422, 1410, 1417—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Richard, Setter and English.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Richard Setter” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Richard, Setter and English 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 Jun 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22336894. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1390, 1422, 1410 and 1417.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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 “Richard Setter” 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.