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George Simond

British tennis player (1867-1941)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ1507932 ↗
Source-derived summary

George Miéville Simond (23 January 1867 – 8 April 1941) was an English tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Simond was born in Marylebone. In 1908 he won the silver medal in the men's indoor doubles competition together with his partner George Caridia.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “George Simond” as british tennis player (1867-1941). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1867, 1941, 1908—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1867-01-23. The account is most persuasive where George, Simond and British can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as british tennis player (1867-1941). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1507932. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1867, 1941 and 1908.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “George Simond” 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.