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Robert McPherson (cricketer)

cricketer (1864-1904)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ24845975 ↗
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Robert McPherson (1 January 1864 – 13 October 1904) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played three first-class matches for Auckland in 1889/90.

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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—1864, 1904, 1889—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1864-01-01. For this dossier, Robert, McPherson and cricketer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Robert McPherson (cricketer)” 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.