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David Beveridge

Scottish footballer (1871-1952)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2023
Entity authorityQ5231391 ↗
Source-derived summary

David Beveridge was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a defender.

References

Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888-1939 (paperback).

Editorial summary

“David Beveridge” enters the record as scottish footballer (1871-1952). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what David, Beveridge and Scottish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1888, 1939—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1871-03-13. Its strongest next move is a source search built around David, Beveridge and Scottish.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“David Beveridge” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, David, Beveridge and Scottish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 9, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q5231391. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1888 and 1939.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “David Beveridge”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow David Beveridge primary sources, David Beveridge archive and David research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “David Beveridge”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “David Beveridge” 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.