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Les Horton

English association football player (1921-2008)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ20643647 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leslie Horton (12 July 1921 – January 2008) was an English professional footballer who played as a half-back in the Football League for Oldham Athletic, Carlisle United, York City, Halifax Town, in non-League football for Ashton United, and was on the books of Rochdale without making a league appearance. He was appointed player-manager of Ashton United in October 1952.

Editorial summary

“Les Horton” enters the record as english association football player (1921-2008). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Horton, English and association can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 2008, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-07-12. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Horton, English and association.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Les Horton” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Horton, English and association 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 May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20643647. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2008 and 1952.

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.

How to read it

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Les Horton” 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.