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Peter Boyers

Solomon Island politician

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ7172912 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Boyers (born September 30, 1962) is a former member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands. He represented the Vona Vona constituency in Western Province. He lost his seat in the 2010 national election. He was Minister of Finance of the Solomon Islands from 2005 to 2006.

He founded the Kadere Party in 2014.

Editorial summary

“Peter Boyers” enters the record as solomon Island politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Peter, Boyers and Solomon can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 2010, 2005, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-09-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Peter, Boyers and Solomon.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Peter Boyers” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Peter, Boyers and Solomon provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7172912. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962, 2010, 2005 and 2006.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Peter Boyers”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Peter Boyers primary sources, Peter Boyers archive and Peter research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Peter Boyers”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Peter Boyers” 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.