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Stephen Parry

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2022
Entity authorityQ2345023 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stephen Parry may refer to:

Stephen Parry (Australian politician) (born 1960), Australian politician from the Liberal Party

Stephen Parry (cricketer) (born 1986), English cricketer

Stephen Parry (swimmer) (born 1977), British middle-distance swimmer

Stephen Parry (Welsh MP) (c.

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“Stephen Parry” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stephen, Parry and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1986, 1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stephen, Parry and Wikimedia.
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“Stephen Parry” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stephen, Parry and Wikimedia 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 Jun 23, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q2345023. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1986 and 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stephen Parry” 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.