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Kurtis Guthrie

English association football player (born 1993)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ6447197 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kurtis Owen Guthrie (born 21 April 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Scottish League One club Queen of the South. He won a bronze medal for Jersey at the 2011 Island Games. He later represented England C, scoring on his debut in March 2016. His sister, Serena, represented England at netball.

After beginning his career on the island of Jersey for St. Clement and Trinity, Guthrie moved to England to sign for Accrington Stanley in 2011, making his professional debut the same year. He spent time on loan at Southport and signed with Welling United in 2012, following a short spell at Bath City. He helped Welling to win the Conference South title in 2012–13 and was sold to Forest Green Rovers in May 2014. He played in the 2016 National League play-off final. Though Forest Green lost the match, he returned to the English Football League after being signed by Colchester United.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kurtis Guthrie” as english association football player (born 1993). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2011, 2016, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-04-21. The account is most persuasive where Kurtis, Guthrie and English can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as english association football player (born 1993). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6447197. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2011, 2016 and 2012.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Kurtis Guthrie” 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.