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Biographical notes on Lancashire players who played
against Yorkshire, or participated in events in Yorkshire.
(See Person Index for
main alphabetic index.)
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Thomas Leyden Agar
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Birth:
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18/02/1849,
Manchester;
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Baptism:
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07/05/1849, St
Mary, St Denys and St George, Manchester
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Death:
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12/11/1941, at
Rainbow Nursing Home, Cheltenham; reg. Q4 1941, at Cheltenham, Glos., at
age 93; probate to Edwin Walker Leyden Agar, aircraft technician; left
£73 18s 9d
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Parents:
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Charles Agar
(born 1812/13, Bury, Lancs.), artist
Isabella Agar
(née Leyden, 1813/14, Liverpool, Lancs.)
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Siblings:
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Charles Ellis
Agar (born 1846/47, Manchester)
Fanny Agar (born
1853/54, Manchester)
William Henry
Agar (born 1855/56, Manchester)
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Education:
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M.A. Oxford
University
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Marriage:
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to Elizabeth
Helen Walker (born 1866/67, Manchester) reg. Q2 1893, Prestwich, Lancs.
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Children:
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Edwin Walker
Leyden Agar (born 1899/00, Manchester)
plus another
dying at birth or while young (under 10)
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/05/1849: 104
King Street, Manchester
30/03/1851: ?
07/04/1861: 143
Red Bank, Manchester; scholar
02/04/1871: 10
Victoria Street, Broughton, Manchester; Oxford undergraduate
03/04/1881:
Ferncliffe Villas, Heaton Norris, Lancs.; schoolmaster, M.A.
05/04/1891: 24
Delanney’s Road, Crumpsall, Lancs.; tutor in classics
31/03/1901: Hest
Bank, 1 Birkdale Road, Burnage, Lancs.; private tutor
02/04/1911: 1
Rivershill, Glebelands Road, Ashton-on-Mersey
12/11/1941:
Byflete, Battledown Approach, Cheltenham
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Chess:
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He represented
North Manchester in the 1904
Huddersfield v North Manchester match
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Other:
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Author of Homerica:
Emendations and Elucidations of The Odyssey (Clarendon Press,
Oxford,1908)
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Edward Alexander Askwith
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Birth:
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1881, Rock
Ferry, Cheshire (to the SE of Birkenhead, on the Mersey); reg. Q3 1881,
Birkenhead, Cheshire
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Baptism:
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29 Jun 1881,
Rock Ferry, Cheshire; the date of registration and baptism suggest the
birth was in the second half on June 1881.
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Death:
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?
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Parents:
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William Henry Askwith (had died by 31/03/1901)
Barbara Mary Askwith (born 1855/56, Liverpool)
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Siblings:
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Barbara M
Askwith, junior (born 1884/85, Oxton, Cheshire, 2m W of centre of
Birkenhead)
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Marriage:
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?
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Residence,
Occupation:
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05/04/1891: ?
31/03/1901: 95 Salisbury
Road, Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancs.
02/04/1911: ?
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Chess:
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He represented
Lancashire against Yorkshire in the matches 1906 Lancashire v Yorkshire
and 1908 Lancashire v
Yorkshire.
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Notes:
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1) A Liverpool
player called “Askwith” (not “Asquith”) appears
variously in chess reports with initials “E. A.” and “C.
A.”. No “C. A. Askwith” is evident in the right
place at the right time, leaving “E. A. Askwith” as the
apparently correct version, who it seems must be the accountant’s
clerk, Edward Alexander Askwith, described here.
2) There was a
farmer called Edward Alexander Askwith who on 20/10/1914 signed paperwork
in Birkenhead to enrol with the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force,
giving his date of birth as 23/05/1882, with his next of kin as a sister
called Mary Asquith living in Birmingham. It’s not clear where
this E. A. Askwith came from, and he would appear very unlikely to be the
Liverpool chess-player. Enigmatically, an Edward Alexander Askwith died
on 03/07/1946, and was buried in Winnipeg, Canada.
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