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Larry Canning

Footballer (1925-2012)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ2303445 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lawrence "Larry" Canning (1 November 1925 – 6 April 2012) was a Scottish footballer who played for Aston Villa during the 1940s and 1950s, then later served on the board. Canning also worked as a journalist and broadcaster, regularly contributing post-match reports on BBC Radio 2's Sports Report programme throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Death

On 6 April 2012, Canning died as a result of vascular dementia – aged 86.

Editorial summary

“Larry Canning” enters the record as footballer (1925-2012). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Larry, Canning and Footballer 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—1925, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925-11-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Larry, Canning and Footballer.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 Jun 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2303445. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1925 and 2012.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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 “Larry Canning” 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.