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Oliver Trinder

British fencer (1907–1981)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ3881808 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oliver Geoffrey Trinder (3 October 1907 – 12 February 1981) was a British fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1936 Summer Olympics, reaching the semi-finals.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Oliver Trinder” is british fencer (1907–1981). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Oliver, Trinder and British, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907, 1981, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1907-10-03. For this dossier, Oliver, Trinder and British is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “british fencer (1907–1981)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3881808. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907, 1981 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oliver Trinder” 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.