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Allan Beswick (rugby union)

South African rugby union player (b. 1870, d. 1908)

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ65042492 ↗
Source-derived summary

Allan Beswick (30 June 1870 – 6 September 1908) was a Cape Colony international rugby union player who played as a forward.

He made 3 appearances for South Africa against the British Lions in 1896.

Editorial summary

“Allan Beswick (rugby union)” enters the record as south African rugby union player (b. 1870, d. 1908). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Allan, Beswick and rugby can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1870, 1908, 1896—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1870-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Allan, Beswick and rugby.
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Why this record matters

“Allan Beswick (rugby union)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Allan, Beswick and rugby provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65042492. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1870, 1908 and 1896.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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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This entry incorporates text from “Allan Beswick (rugby union)” 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.