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Simon Wootton

English cricketer (born 1959)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ16193445 ↗
Source-derived summary

Simon Howard Wootton (born 24 February 1959) is an English former first-class cricketer who played for Warwickshire between 1981 and 1983, and for Gloucestershire in 1984. He also played List A cricket for Warwickshire.

Editorial summary

“Simon Wootton” enters the record as english cricketer (born 1959). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Simon, Wootton and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 1981, 1983, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-02-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Simon, Wootton and English.
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“Simon Wootton” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Simon, Wootton and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16193445. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959, 1981, 1983 and 1984.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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 “Simon Wootton” 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.