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Cloptonson

Joined 4 February 2012

User:Cloptonson




About the User

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Born: 20 June 1959, Shropshire, England. Gender: Male. Nationality: British, English. First Language: English. Other Language with largest vocabulary - German (mainly through Anglo-German church contacts). Educated: Mary Webb School, Pontesbury, Shropshire; Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology. Occupation; Civil servant, Ministry of Defence.

Inspiration for User name

An amalgam of the names of Clopton Lloyd-Jones and Edwin Alderson, men who both lived in my home village at different times and had been the subject of local historical research by the User.

Interests away from Wikipedia.

Local historical research, writing articles (usually local history), composing poems, sightseeing (particularly churches, cathedrals, historic houses, museums, cemeteries), local Anglican parish church, bass singer.

Awards

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  • Claims the Service Award and Ribbon of Registered Editor, for having (at close of 4 February 2012) done 9 edits of 4 pages on first day of service.
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    Registered Editor


  • Holds Editor's Barn Star (June 2012) from Maryana (WMF) for milestone 1,000 edits of English language articles, citation mainly for improving and expanding biographies of British historical figures.

 
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  • Claims the Service Award and Level 3 Ribbon of Journeyman Editor having (as at 31 October 2012) done at least 3,000 edits at 9 months' service.
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    The Journeyman lv 3, Awarded for being a Registered Editor for 9 months and completion of 3,000 edits


  • Claims the Service Award and Level 3 Ribbon of Yeoman Editor having (as at 30 April 2013) done at least 5,000 edits at 15 months' service.
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    The Yeoman lv 3, Awarded for being a Registered Editor for 15 months and completion of 5,000 edits


  • Claims the Service Award of Experienced Editor having (as at 30 September 2013) done at least 6,000 edits at 18 months' service.
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    Experienced Editor


  • Claims the Service Award of Veteran Editor or Tutnum, having (as at 28 February 2014) done at least 8,000 edits at 2 years' service.
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    Veteran Editor


 
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  • Awarded The Special Barnstar (July 2021) by Visnelma.

 
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  • Received into the Wikipedia Ten Year Society on 7 February 2024.
 



User's Top Ten Most Edited Pages

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(As at 5 May 2024)

Main 1.Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom 2.List of footballers killed during World War II 3.Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 4.United Kingdom general election records 5.List of crematoria in England 6.List of friendly fire incidents 7.Shrewsbury 8.Golders Green Crematorium 9.Earl Shilton 10.United Kingdom by-election records


Talk 1.Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom 2.Shrewsbury 3.Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 4.William Wycherley 5.List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars 6.Eddy de Neve 7.John Westwood (footballer) 8.Honours of Winston Churchill 9. Shrewsbury School 10.United Kingdom general election records

Wikipedia Topics Treated

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Biographical - primarily people with Shropshire links (not just Shropshire-born). Chiefly military, sporting and political figures, British peers. I bring to the editing of these my experience (begun at secondary school) and interest in local historical research primarily of my native Shropshire, and of bordering counties: Herefordshire, Cheshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire in England, and Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire in Wales.

In August 2013 I began making additions to the lists of Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom and in 2014 began additions on Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, and in 2015 United Kingdom general election records and United Kingdom by-election records. I have also begun in December 2014 editing articles on Biblical characters.

NB - The user declares he is unrelated to any subjects of Wikipedia biographies, so he is independent of vested family interest.

Historical - articles mainly military history (notably both World Wars), local history of places, British political history.

Geographical - primarily pages on places in Shropshire and bordering counties. Helped by researching, and experience of visiting, and staying in them. Places further afield may also get my treatment if they have been explored by me or they have figured much in my research. I am also apt to add (where justly due) to lists of those buried at featured cemeteries.

In September 2015 I incorporated in several articles on modern UK parliamentary constituencies details of former borough constituencies, especially the 'rotten boroughs', that lay within their current boundaries.

In August 2012 I begun populating pages (or page sections) on British and overseas cemeteries and churches with details of CWGC-registered war graves and special memorials, or amending and augmenting where such details have already been input. Beginning with Golders Green Crematorium, at least 400 cemeteries, churchyards and crematoria have been treated, as well as the CWGC's Memorials to the Missing such as Menin Gate and Thiepval Memorial. I have also added details of Victoria Cross recipients buried, cremated or commemorated at those places. Within England I have added war grave details to articled cemeteries and churches in Shropshire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Somerset, Cheshire, Birmingham, Merseyside, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, Essex, Sussex, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex. I have treated articles on cemeteries outside the UK in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hong Kong, India, the Irish Republic, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Spain, Turkey, Uruguay and the United States. I was further spurred by the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and the 75th anniversary of that of World War II in 2014.

For same reason, I also begun (June 2014) adding cited details of war memorials to articles on Shropshire churches or villages.

Films/TV - bringing to notice anachronisms or departures from history.

Wikipedia Experience

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I began reading Wikipedia frequently in about 2007, having first consulted it at work colleague's request for lyrics of a Tom Jones song (unsuccessfully). I have since used them as reference - among many sources - for my detailed historical researches, while recognising inaccuracies seen on some existing pages.

User Since: 4 February 2012, after acquiring laptop for home use.

My editorial experience of Wikipedia is in amending or augmenting text of English language pages - usually about places and people - with citations from reference books, periodicals and online sources, and creating links to other articles where that has been omitted.

I do not attempt changes to foreign language pages but I intervened once, in a Polish language page, on General Roman Gorecki, just to make clear his grave is at Shropshire's Whitchurch.

Also contribute to Talk Pages of articles - usually to inform on major changes to be made; question unhelpful or confusing statements in existing text; draw attention to major inaccuracies, apparent irrelevancies in text and illustrations (eg portraits that look inconsistent with era and age of article subject), and points possibly deserving clarification or checks by other users.

Also make opportune corrections to improve spelling where applicable, rephrase sentences where desirable to read more clearly without harming presented information, or chronologically rearrange text.

I have also lifted information between articles, generally from those more detailed to those less detailed that associate with the more detailed's topic, eg in January 2015 I have been lifting details from the London Necropolis Company and the London Necropolis Railway to augment the article on Brookwood Cemetery (which the company built and originally owned).

What I Like About Editing Wikipedia

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  • The satisfaction of leaving pages more accurate, more interesting, and sometimes of interest to more communities, than when I found them.
  • Playing a part in tidying the information superhighway, removing the odd vandalism encountered (see A Gallery of Rogues, below).
  • Improving the visibility of a page topic, through added links, to wider surfing audiences - to other local communities, other areas of one's country, even other countries, other organisations (eg regiments, schools, sports clubs).
  • Contributing to more accurate and detailed understanding of a historical biographical subject eg birthplace details, marriages or relatives with articles in own right, details of death causes, death and burial/cremation places, places where they had lived or worked not previously given in pages.
  • Pointing out (from viewing experience) anachronisms or historical inaccuracies on films/TV treating real people and events. It seems sometimes costume dramas won't let the truth get in the way of their 'good story'. I am not trying to spoil viewers' fun but make the departures less misleading to those trying to understand history.
  • Sharing my discoveries in history for public consumption more easily than would be the case with traditional publishing channels.
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Some scurrilous or vandalistic details I have deleted (or caused deleted by those who could confirm they were not genuine) from pages, see articles' respective Talk pages for fuller stories:

Charlton Kings - from list of local churches: 

St Chuckus Norris Church of Kung-Fu

Chetton - section Population:

 
A picture of Oakley mills-keeling
Chetton is also notably the home of Oakley mills-keeling

Church Aston - section Notable Residents: 

Jack Blake - Party Animal

Condover - section Sports - about Condover Football Club: 

managed by Tom Hanchers dodgy hairline to go with his teams

Ellesmere College - section Notable Old Ellesmerians: 

*Jez Sykes - Worst Player at Winchester Club
*Tom Kinsey (Erich Gustav Katz) - Painter
*Bosco de Santiago - footballer

George Emmerson - at end of section Career 

Don Quixote

Grove School, Market Drayton - 

Previously a Special Needs school admired by Cristiano Ronaldo, Deji Olatunji, Darren Watkins and Olajide Olatunji, in December 1941 Grove School converted to Football Academy Club status. The school is now sponsored by Manchester United.

Harmer Hill - about the village 

It ceased to exist at midnight on 31st December 1999. Extensive searches have taken place but no trace has been found. A small vigil takes place on the last Sunday of every month in Preston Gubbals to commemorate the disappearance.

The name Harmer comes from the two words "Artic log (disambiguation)" and [Dream topping]],..

Philip Holland (minister)

The parent and spouse information in the infobox (right) is false:

Philip Holland
Born1721
Died2 January 1789
SpouseBen Snaith
Parent(s)Lydia Snape (mother)
Asmita Mukherjee (father)

Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk - about the Duke, a lifelong Roman Catholic: 

He was also known to be one of the only Muslim Duke at the time in England, alongside the Duke of Surrey.

History of Middlewich - summary about the town: 

In ancient times Middlewich had a burial ground dating back to the Saxon times located close to the big lock in where there are many haunted beings there is regularly a group of Mormons who do visuals in the local area to ward of the demons.

Meole Brace School - from list of Notable former pupils: 

*John F. Kennedy, Former Meole Brace Basketballer
*Francine McGarrity, less than 5 Instagram followers

Montgomery, Powys - section The Old County Gaol: 

The warden of the Gaol was, for over 62 years, Micky Dripp. He pioneered a new inmate reconditioning scheme in the 1960’s which went on to form the basis of the Icelandic prison system as it exists today. Dripp was also prominent in local government, a scene in which he used corruption to obtain the role of governor of Montgomeryshire. Twenty-seven adulterers, an issue about which Dripp was unusually passionate, were put to death in 1981 before he was ousted from his position of power. 2007 saw a Dripp comeback to rival that of the Taliban in 2021 and managed to get elected to police chief of Welshpool. Unfortunately, Dripp had no knowledge of the town and its local culture and his attempts to mediate antagonistic dispute between the local Polish and Burmese communities were broadly unsuccessful. Indeed, 724 residents were crushed to death in the ‘Umbrella Crush’ of 2009, in an incident that was entirely blamed of Dripp’s mishandling of the situation.

Morda - section History: 

Lordship
In 2007 Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II Commissioned the Lordship of Morda to The Right Honorable Lord Joel of 
Morda.

However this got reinstated with more text but still uncited and ahistorical: 

The Lordship of Morda
In 2007 Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II Commissioned the Lordship of Morda to The Right Honorable Lord Joel of Morda. Lord Joel has always been admired by his subjects, they often speak about his benevlot acts of generosity and his good looks, which makes him one of the most sought after bachelors in North Shropshire.

Myddle - section Notable people: 

Steve Blenkinsop, England international in cricket, tennis, football, and rugby. Also known to accompany Noddy in his car.

Oswestry - from Toponym section: 

Oswestry is also the name given to the place where an Owl makes its nest.

Pimhill - about area: 

Pimhill is also the home of renowned trail runner, facemelting shredder and cake maestro Rossatron.

Shrewsbury Town F.C. - section Managerial history, fictitious entry: 

* Sir Trevor Brian Evans 1886–1905.
** Former olympian and local man, who took over the side from the "Castle Blues" and was the first manager of the club when they became Shrewsbury Town

St. Jude storm - section Casualties, subsection Denmark, concerning deaths caused by storm but the incident is not mentioned in the news citation: 

Danish's mother was also found dead at 35 due to a heroin overdose.

Stapleton, Shropshire - section Notable people: 

Lord J.A. Dale - Educator and athlete

Swynnerton - section Key moments in history: 

 The Swynnerton Stout and Fitzherbert Worst, local ales have been awarded the global taste of disgust award every year from 3648 BC.

Upton Magna - about village: 

Upton Magna is home to the notorious gang 'ST. Lucia Elite youth', established in 2008.

Welshpool - section Nobable People - Sport 

*  Rob Cookson  , Excellent five a side footballer, and out like a shot at 5.58pm each Tuesday

Wrockwardine - section The Village - about the Alms-Houses which were in fact built in 1841: 

The Alms-Houses were built in 1986, by the bare hands of Alan Wedge...

Yockleton - section Notable People: 

Grand Dame Alison Wade (1972-) local pedigree farmer, in 1972 fell out of the sky as an angel, a self-described Liberal Conservative, went on to rule the world, previously serving as a Prime Minister for the Principality of YokelLand between 1992-1999. Famous for when born able to sing Lily the Pink 10 times a day accompanied in E-Minor by her two pet unicorns along with a red squirrel joining on bass guitar.

Some Sources Used in Research for Editing

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Books:

Biographical Reference, National Interest:

Biographical and Historical, Shropshire Interest:

  • Charles H. Mate (editor), Shropshire - Historical, Descriptive, Biographical - Part II, Biographical (1907), Mate.
  • E.W. Gladstone, The Shropshire Yeomanry, 1790-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (1953), The Whitethorn Press.
  • Margaret Keeling-Roberts, In Retrospect, A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary (1981), North Shropshire Printing Company Ltd.
  • Barrie Trinder, A History of Shropshire (1983), Phillimore.
  • Rowland Ryder, Oliver Leese (1987), Hamish Hamilton.
  • Gordon Dickins, An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire (1987), Shropshire Libraries.
  • Tony Percival, Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998 (1999), A.C.S. Publications.
  • Peter Francis, A Matter of Life and Death, the Secrets of Shrewsbury Cemetery (2006), Logaston Press.
  • Peter Francis, Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance (2013), YouCaxton Publications.
  • Catherine Beale, Born out of Wenlock, William Penny Brookes and the British origins of the modern Olympics (2011), DB Publishing.
  • Mary de Saulles, The Story of Shrewsbury (2012), Logaston Press.


Newspapers:

Journals:

  • The Shropshire Magazine
  • Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society (formerly Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society).

Online Resources:

  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty Records (Debt of Honour Register) for those who were British Commonwealth military casualties 1914-21 and military and civilian war casualties 1939-47, and Cemetery Reports.

Some Article Achievements

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Biographical

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Deaths reported to Wikipedia

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  • Reported to Wikipedia on 17 May 2012 death of baritone Derek Hammond-Stroud (on 14 May 2012), following local newspaper announcement.
  • Reported to Wikipedia on 12 January 2015 death of Church of England clergyman and author Douglas Bartles-Smith (took place June 2014) following reading newspaper report on publication of his last book.
  • Reported to Wikipedia on 22 March 2016, based on Shropshire Star report of 18 March, death of Les Cocker, former Wolves and Wellington United footballer.
  • Reported to Wikipedia on 10 August 2021, based on Shropshire Star report of 9 August, death of Thomas Nicholls (boxer) (took place 31 July 2021).
  • Reported to Wikipedia on 12 November 2024, based on Shropshire Star death notice of that date, death of Peter Wall, former Shrewsbury Town, Liverpool and Crystal Palace F.C. footballer and manager of U.S. soccer teams (took place 30 October 2024).
  • Reported to Wikipedia on 21 November 2024, following radio news announcement, death of John Prescott, Baron Prescott, former Labour Party cabinet minister (took place 20 November 2024).

Places

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In Shropshire

Elsewhere


Abroad

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  • 1 contender for longest-lived former MP (William Badger (died 1629)).
  • 6 contenders to records as shortest-lived MP (category section created)
  • 1 contender for record of oldest debut in the Commons (case of Warren Lisle aged reputedly 85 in 1780), that of MP with oldest confirmed birthdate (Sir Robert Pullar), and that of oldest woman (Ethel Bentham) (category section created).
  • Mentioned several MPs who made more than one comeback to the House of Commons, (notably 4-times returner Lord Charles Beresford)..
  • 8 former Commonwealth Prime Ministers who became a UK MP or Peer and 6 former MPs who became Prime Ministers in other countries of the British Commonwealth.
  • the first Moravian Church member (Charles Hindley, Mormon (Terry Rooney) and Hindu (Shailesh Vara) returned at a General Election.
  • 1 contender for tallest MP pre-20th century.
  • 2 contenders for shortest adult MP (Sarah Teather and Hazel Blears).
  • 112 MPs who were physically disabled when in office, taking period covered by list back to 1529. (I flagged up the page for that reason in the UK Parliament Facebook page in post relating to ParliAble network in January 2016.)
  • 51 serving MPs and 94 former MPs who died through wartime active service pre World Wars (also list chronologised).
  • 1 serving MP who died through active service in World War I.
  • 1 former MP (Michael Collins) who died through active service in Inter War Years
  • 1 serving MP and 2 former MPs who died through wartime active service in World War II.
  • 1 serving MP and 4 former MPs who died as wartime civilian casualties (created new list, deaths covered far back as 1672).
  • 75 serving MPs (notably Sir Robert Peel) and 106 former MPs who died from accidents, taking deaths covered by list back to 1386 (list chronologised).
  • 23 serving MPs and 44 former MPs who committed suicide, taking deaths covered by list back to 1408 (list chronologised).
  • 5 serving MPs and 24 former MPs who were murdered, taking period covered back to 1352 (list chronologised).
  • 19 serving MPs (notably Admiral John Byng and Bobby Sands) and 100 former MPs who died in prison, were executed or died having escaped justice, taking period covered back to 1323 (list chronologised).
  • 4 serving MPs and 1 former MP who disappeared, taking period covered by list back to 1731.
  • 5 serving MPs and 3 former MPs who died as result of a duel (list chronologised), deaths covered advanced to 1822.
  • Prime Ministerial terms and reigns of sovereigns (triggered in 90th birthday celebrations of present Queen)
  • age differences between successive Prime Ministers
  • Prime Ministers' terms of office and reigns of sovereigns
  • youngest and oldest ages at defeat in General Elections
  • most Prime Ministers serving between General Elections
  • Prime Ministers who held office without the involvement of General Elections
  • Prime Ministers who served office from the House of Lords or later entered it
  • Ethnic Minority Prime Ministers - first Anglo-Indian (Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool) and first Jewish (Benjamin Disraeli) and two others who had Jewish ancestors
  • Religious Minority Prime Ministers - those belonging to other denominations than the Church of England
  • Disabled Prime Ministers
  • Armed forces veterans - first and last, only former generals, etc
  • War bereaved Prime Ministers
  • Decorated - most decorations (Churchill), decorations from most states (Wellington), first Nobel Prize winner (Churchill), first gallantry award winner (Anthony Eden), most commonly conferred order of knighthood on PMs
  • Longest-married Prime Minister (James Callaghan) and shortest-married (Robert Walpole second marriage)
  • Divorced - Duke of Grafton and Anthony Eden
  • Kindred Prime Ministers - sets of fathers-sons, brothers, cousins, uncles-nephews, brothers-in-law, uncles-in-law/nephews-in-law etc.
  • seats lost by incoming Liberal governments.
  • first general elections contested by new political parties.
  • last general elections contested by defunct political parties.
  • first general elections that followed changes in electoral laws or practices.
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  The articles/lists below received added information unless otherwise stated:

People

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Albert, Prince Consort*Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale*Horatio Bottomley*Robert Catesby*Neville Chamberlain*Princess Charlotte of Wales*Learie Constantine*Randall Davidson (clarifications)*Charles Darwin (illustration)*Benjamin Disraeli*Alec Douglas-Home*Edward VII of the United Kingdom*Sir Edward Elgar*Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover*George IV of the United Kingdom*George V of the United Kingdom*James II of England*Ken "Snakehips" Johnson*Cosmo Gordon Lang (corrected information)*Nikita Khruschev*George Lansbury*Ronald Reagan (also added illustration)*Mary Martha Sherwood*Alexis Soyer (including corrected information)*Bert Trautmann*Ellen Wilkinson*William IV of the United Kingdom

Places

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Altrincham*St Nicholas Church, Blakeney*Chartwell*Dorset*Manchester*Northampton War Memorial (corrected information)*Tower of London*Warwick Castle (including corrected information)*St Botolph's Church, Quarrington*Weymouth, Dorset

Others

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Assassination of Spencer Perceval*Battle of Barnet*Battle of Bosworth Field (citation added)*Battle of Vimy Ridge (corrected information)*Coronation of the British monarch (delisted as FA 2022)*Marchioness disaster*Peterloo Massacre (corrected information)*Priestley riots*Stockton and Darlington Railway*Victoria Cross

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List of Archbishops of Canterbury*List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

Good Articles to which material contributed

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  The articles below received added information from me unless otherwise indicated:

People

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Sir Edwin Alderson*Arthur, Prince of Wales*W.H. Auden*Tony Benn*Charles Blackader*John Boydell (corrected information)*James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan*John Brunt*Winston Churchill*Edward Colston (updated information)*Thomas Crump*John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland*Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester*Caroline Flack*Hermann Göring*Henry VIII of England*Eric Lock*Manchester Martyrs*Romualdas Marcinkus (corrected information)*R.J. Mitchell*Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson*Sir Isaac Newton*Louis Nolan (corrected illustration and wikilinking)*Leni Riefenstahl*Franz Schubert*Mary Seacole (corrected information)*Chloe Sevigny*Stephen Sutton*Margaret Thatcher*Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard*Robert and Thomas Wintour

Places

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St Beuno's Church, Aberffraw*St Mary's Church, Acton, Cheshire*Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery (updated information)*Ashford, Kent*Ashtead*St Mary's Church, Astbury*Basingstoke*Bentworth*Binsted, Hampshire*St Edern's Church, Bodedern*Bournemouth*Canterbury, Kent*St Ceinwen's Church, Cerrigceinwen*Chester Cathedral (improved picture caption)*Chew Magna*St Andrew's Church, Chew Stoke*Derwent Valley Mills (corrected information)*Dorchester, Dorset*Dorking*Eastbourne*Epsom*Galveston, Texas*Hebden, North Yorkshire*St Margaret's Church, Ifield, West Sussex*Islay*Leatherhead*St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch*St Peulan's Church, Llanbeulan*St Dona's Church, Llanddona*St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen*St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy*St Ffinan's Church, Llanffinan*St Michael's Church, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog*St Gallgo's Church, Llangallgo*St Cristiolus's Church, Llangristiolus*St Nidan's Church, Llanidan*St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo*St Iestyn's Church, Llaniestyn*London Necropolis railway station*Ludlow Castle (corrected wikilinking)*M54 motorway*St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth*Middlewich*Oakhanger, Hampshire (corrected information)*All Saints Church, Patcham*St Mary's Church, Pentraeth*Poole*Portishead, Somerset (updated information)*Portsmouth (corrected information)*Powis Castle (corrected information)*Richmond Park*Romford*Shalden*Shrewsbury (delisted as GA 2023)*Staines-upon-Thames*Steep, Hampshire*Stokesay Castle (corrected information)*St Beuno's Church, Trefdraeth*St George's Church, Trotton*Uxbridge*Weston-super-Mare*Weybridge

Others

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1900 Galveston hurricane*Christmas truce*Commonwealth War Graves Commission*Gunpowder Plot (corrected information)*HMS Hampshire (1903)* HMS Hostile (H55)*Murder of Celine Figard (named then Home Secretary)*Norway Debate*Royal National Lifeboat Institution (corrected and clarified information)*Statue of Edward Colston (corrected information)*Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl*

Other Milestones

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Edited 1,000th article on Thursday 31 January 2013 - Christ Church, Eaton, Cheshire. Added section "Churchyard" to report a CWGC-registered war grave.

Edited 2,000th article on Saturday, 2 November 2013 - Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley. Added details of education, political party, election to Royal Society, and (accidental) circumstances of death.

Edited 3,000th article on Sunday, 25 May 2014 - Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. Added details of CWGC-registered war grave.

Edited 4,000th article on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 - Acton Reynald village, Shropshire. Added mention of Acton Reynald Hall and practical demolition of village to create its parkland.

First interview - on 28 January 2015 for Project Report on WikiProjectDeath for The Signpost issue of 4 February 2015 (titled "Dicing with death - on Wikipedia?").

Edited 5,000th article on Friday, 12 June 2015 - Dairy Crest, updated reference to Crudgington Creamery, Shropshire, now closed, with research facility moved to Harper Adams University and sandwich spread production concentrated in Kirkby (from Shropshire newspaper story).

Edited 6,000th article on Wednesday, 13 January 2016 - Newcastle, Shropshire. Added section on parish church.

Edited 7,000th article on Thursday, 22 September 2016 - Suzi Perry. Added award of honorary degree from University of Wolverhampton.

Edited 8,000th article on Saturday, 3 November 2018 - James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist). Added significant biographical information including full life dates, education, family details.

Edited 9,000th article on Saturday, 13 June 2020 - Richard Colley (cricketer) - added information on education pre-university and county cricketing for Oxfordshire and Shropshire.

Edited 10,000th article on Saturday, 20 February 2021 - Lyttelton family - added caption information on portrait of judge Thomas Littleton and added talk page comment drawing to attention omission of Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, the Stuart judge who was a descendant.

Edited 11,000th article on Sunday, 4 July 2021 - Great Bridge Unity F.C. - pinpointed county of Great Bridge's location during 1880s (Staffordshire), information on club lifespan.

Edited 12,000th article on Friday, 19 November 2021 - Diocese of Newcastle (Church of England) - corrected the stated number of honorary assistant Bishops then serving the diocese.

Edited 13,000th article on Thursday, 19 May 2022 - Howard Plumb - further detail of life outside his sport.

Edited 14,000th article on Wednesday, 8 February 2023 - Ana Pauker - raised citation need over her stated birth date which is variously given as February and December 1893.

Edited 15,000th article on Friday, 29 September 2023 - Charlotte Burbury - clarified she died at Richmond in London.

IP Accounts

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While I endeavour to save all edits under my user name, I have also (accidentally, not by design) contributed edits under following IP addresses:

217.141.23.33 - 16 biographies, three places, Talk re 1876 FA Cup Final.

213.122.140.252 - 3 biographies, two places (I disown oldest edit in account - was not an editor in 2011).

194.81.127.244 - Four place articles (Powis Castle, West Ham Jewish Cemetery, Westminster Abbey Burials and Monuments, Sidestrand), talk points re Sir Sam Hughes, Stanley Baldwin and 6th Marquess of Northampton, and 3 biographies (Lancelot Hogben, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, 6th Marquess of Northampton.)

85.158.202.7 - Added Sir William Strickland to list of Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom killed in accidents.

86.155.139.70.132 - 5 biographies, one place (Hodnet).

86.152.158.133 - 3 biographies, one Talk re Second Battle of Ypres).

86.141.23.33 - Article on Hewlett Johnson.

86.137.43.2 - Article on Brookwood Cemetery (disown first edit in the account)

86.132.13.37 - one Talk re Major General Hubert Hamilton.

81.153.121.160 - 3 biographies, besides two edits to this profile.

31.48.248.218 - introduced section on divorced Prime Ministers (Anthony Eden) in Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom,and work on section on Brother Sets of MPs in Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom.

217.35.253.76 - further detail of WWI service of Sir Oswald Mosley.

30.50.165.221 - entered in Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom the shortest interval (fastest comeback) between terms served by a Prime Minister - Henry Pelham's two days out of office in 1746.

217.35.253.7 - further detail in talk page comment to article on Larcomar, regarding coverage of recent fire disaster.

TO BE CONTINUED

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