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Thomas Rowland

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ131147730 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thomas Rowland may refer to:

Thomas Rowland (politician) (1784–1839), American politician and soldier in Michigan

Thomas F. Rowland (1831–1907), American engineer and shipbuilder

Tom Rowland (American football) (born 1945), American football player and coach

Tommy Rowland (active 1968–1975), American football player

Tom Rowland (politician) (active 1991–2017), mayor of Cleveland, Tennessee

See also

Rowland Thomas (ca.

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“Thomas Rowland” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Thomas, Rowland and Wikimedia 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—1784, 1839, 1831, 1907—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Thomas, Rowland and Wikimedia.
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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 Nov 12, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q131147730. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1784, 1839, 1831 and 1907.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thomas Rowland” 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.