Personal information | |||
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Full name | Thompson Noble Kirkham [1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 10 December 1901||
Place of birth | Felling, County Durham, England | ||
Date of death | q1 1986 (aged 84) | ||
Place of death | Gateshead, England | ||
Position(s) | Outside right | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1923–1924 | Darlington | 19 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Thompson Noble Kirkham (10 December 1901 – q1 1986) was an English footballer who played as an outside right in the Football League for Darlington.
Kirkham was the third child of Thomas Gallon Kirkham, a lighterman, and his wife Elizabeth Jane. He was born in Felling, County Durham, where the family were living at the time of the 1911 Census. [1] Described as a local lad, Kirkham had displaced Harry Hall from the outside-right position for Darlington by December 1923, [3] and finished the season, and his Football League career, with 19 appearances in the Third Division North and one goal. [4] His death was registered in early 1986 in Gateshead. [2]
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