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A fact from Samuel Sparshott appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 December 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Commander Samuel Sparshott, who testified at Lord Gambier's court-martial, and Admiral Edward Sparshott, who commanded the 52-gun HMS Winchester (pictured), were brothers who served in the Napoleonic Wars?

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Links to The Times via Gale

To editors: please consider UK library members when changing the link to The Times via Gale. All you need to do is add your own link, and not delete our free UK library link. Otherwise I cannot access the citation myself, which makes it difficult to curate the article. This is after all a British-subject article.Thank you. Storye book (talk) 18:05, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]