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Ron Oxenham

Australian cricketer (1891-1939)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7364238 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ronald Keven Oxenham (28 July 1891 – 16 August 1939) was an Australian cricketer who played in seven Test matches from 1928 to 1931.

Early life

Ron was born to Augustus Emmanuel and Elizabeth Oxenham (née Perry) at the Brisbane suburb of Nundah in late July 1891.

First-class career

Oxenham (aged 20) debuted for Queensland in a match at the SCG against New South Wales in November 1911.

After a long career, he played his last first-class match (aged 45) against South Australia in February 1937.

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“Ron Oxenham” enters the record as australian cricketer (1891-1939). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oxenham, Australian and cricketer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1891, 1939, 1928, 1931—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1891-07-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Oxenham, Australian and cricketer.
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“Ron Oxenham” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Oxenham, Australian and cricketer provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7364238. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1891, 1939, 1928 and 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ron Oxenham” 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.