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Samuel Kinghan

Northern Irish politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ7411911 ↗
Source-derived summary

Samuel Kinghan OBE (c.1898 – 1975) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Kinghan worked at Gallagher's Tobacco. He became active in the Ulster Unionist Party and was elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland in 1963, serving until its abolition in 1973. From 1965 to 1967, and again from 1971 to 1972, he was a Deputy Speaker of the Senate.

Kinghan died in 1975 at the age of 77.

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“Samuel Kinghan” enters the record as northern Irish politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Samuel, Kinghan and Northern can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1975, 1963, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Samuel, Kinghan and Northern.
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“Samuel Kinghan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Samuel, Kinghan and Northern provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7411911. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1975, 1963 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samuel Kinghan” 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.