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Henry Howard Clarke |
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Identity of the Chess-Player
Henry Howard Clarke is not to be confused with similarly-named Sheffield chess-player Henry Clark (no final “e”) who was born 16/05/1913.
Non-Chess Life
Henry Howard Clarke was born in 1890, at Chester, son of ironmonger Henry Evans Clarke (born 1861, Colchester) and Fanny Emily Clarke (née Howard, 1867, Crewe, Nantwich) of Eaton Road, Chester, who got married in 1888 at Nantwich, Cheshire, and went on to have at least the following two children:
Henry Howard Clarke was baptised on 06/04/1890, at Chester, by F G Cole, curate.
The 1891 census recorded the family under the surname “Clark”, at Eaton Road, Chester.
By 1899 the family had settled in Hull, though births of two children, two in Shrewsbury and one in Manchester suggest a possible brief residence in one or both of those places.
In the 1911 census, father Henry Evans Clarke was recorded as a silversmith manager. Henry Howard Clarke had by then left home, and was lodging with the Froggatt household (three brothers and two sisters) at 104 Idsworth Road, Firth Park, Sheffield. Henry was a traveller for a flour miller.
In 1913, Henry married one of the Froggatt sisters, Jessie Froggatt (born 17/04/1889, Sheffield). The couple went on to have at least the following children:
On 05/11/1916, Henry was drafted for “short service” into the “Royal Regiment of Artillery (Royal Garrison Artillery)”. In the paperwork he was listed as a miller’s traveller. His address at this time was 80 Vickers Road, Firth Park, Sheffield.
The 1939 Register found Henry and Jessie living with the above three children and two other people at 215 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield. Henry was still a commercial traveller, as was son John, while Margaret was a shorthand typist and Sylvia was a clerk.
Chess
He played chess in Sheffield at least over the period 1920 to 1937. He was Sheffield Champion in 1920 and 1921. He played for Sheffield in the Woodhouse Cup in the 1920s and 1930s and possibly before and/or after. He played in the 1922 Rotherham Capablanca simultaneous display.
Death
Henry Howard Clarke died in 1948, in Sheffield.
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Created 24/08/2018 |
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Last Updated 24/08/2018 |