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Worthington Hoskin

cricketer (1885-1956)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ15998826 ↗
Source-derived summary

Worthington Hoskin (8 May 1885 – 4 March 1956) was an English cricketer. He played for Gloucestershire between 1907 and 1912. He attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, South Africa and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1904.

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The public source identifies “Worthington Hoskin” as cricketer (1885-1956). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Worthington, Hoskin and cricketer.

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—1885, 1956, 1907, 1912—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1885-05-08. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Worthington, Hoskin and cricketer providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Worthington Hoskin”, the useful work is to connect “cricketer (1885-1956)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15998826. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1885, 1956, 1907 and 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “Worthington Hoskin” 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.