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Peter Gray (sailor)

Irish sailor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ96398936 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Gray (14 August 1935 – 13 February 2022) was an Irish sailor. He competed in the Flying Dutchman event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Gray died on 13 February 2022, at the age of 86.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Peter Gray (sailor)” is irish sailor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Peter, Gray and sailor, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935, 2022, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935-08-14. For this dossier, Peter, Gray and sailor is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “irish sailor” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q96398936. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1935, 2022 and 1960.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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 “Peter Gray (sailor)” 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.