Career
He also played football for Blackburn, Southampton, Bradford Park Avenue and Hereford. Horton came late to full-time cricket, having spent most of his 20s concentrating on his football career. Horton was essentially a defensive player, contrasting with the flamboyance of Marshall.
He was a right-handed batsman with a curious and ungainly crouching stance, once described as if he was sitting on a shooting stick.
But he made a lot of runs at a good average, and passed 1,000 runs in 12 consecutive seasons, going on to 2,000 in three of them. His total of 2,428 runs in 1959 is the sixth highest aggregate in Hampshire history, beaten only by Philosophy Mead (four times) and once by Marshall.
Horton remained fit into his mid-40s, and completed 1,000 for the last time in 1966. The following year, with younger players coming into the side, he played a few games and then retired.
He became a first-class umpire for a few seasons, then retired back to Herefordshire.
He was the younger brother of Joseph Horton, who played more than 60 times for Worcestershire in the 1930s and who died just four days after him.
