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Peter Blackbourn

New Zealand cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ100997947 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Blackbourn (born 4 April 1957) is a New Zealand cricketer. He played in three first-class matches for Central Districts in 1983/84.

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“Peter Blackbourn” enters the record as new Zealand cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Peter, Blackbourn and Zealand can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-04-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Peter, Blackbourn and Zealand.
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“Peter Blackbourn” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Peter, Blackbourn and Zealand provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q100997947. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Blackbourn” 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.