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Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes

Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1872–1945)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, was a British naval officer.

Editorial summary

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 16-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Roger, Keyes and Baron can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1872–1945). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Aug 25, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes” 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.