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Robert James Card

Irish priest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 28, 2023
Entity authorityQ108314262 ↗
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Robert James Card (1818–1888) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 19th century.

Card was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was the incumbent at Kilcommock; and Archdeacon of Ardagh from 1875 until 1883.

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The public source identifies “Robert James Card” as irish priest. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Robert, James and Card.

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—1818, 1888, 1875, 1883—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1818-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Robert, James and Card providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 28, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q108314262. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1818, 1888, 1875 and 1883.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert James Card” 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.