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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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Rev. Wilfred Charles Palmer
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Birth:
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01/07/1873,
Wallasey, Cheshire; reg. Q3 1873, Birkenhead
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Baptism:
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24/07/1873,
Wallasey, Cheshire
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Death:
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01/09/1914, Port of Spain,
Trinidad, West Indies; probate at London to Edith Mary Palmer; left
£268 17s
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Parents:
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Henry James Palmer
(born 1834/35, Clapham, Surrey; clergyman without cure), Margaret Stewart
Palmer
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Siblings:
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Bernard B Palmer
(born 1868/69, Wallasey)
Mary S Palmer
(born 1874/75, Wallasey)
Mary Stewart
Palmer (born 1872/73, Wallasey)
Cyril Henry
Palmer (born 1874/75, Wallasey)
Margaret Edith
Palmer (born 1876/77, Wallasey)
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Marriage:
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31/12/1908, St
John the Baptist, Halifax, to Edith Mary Shoebridge (born 1880/81),
spinster of St. John’s Lane, Halifax, daughter of Walter Shoebridge
(deceased), jeweller.
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Children:
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?
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Residence,
Occupation:
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03/04/1881:
Claremont School, Claremont Road, Wallasey; (school run by father); scholar
05/04/1891: The
Vicarage, Cranbourne(?) Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs.; scholar
31/03/1901: ?
24/03/1906:
Manchester [per match result]
26/01/1907:
Bolton [per match result]
21/03/1908:
Todmorden [per match result]
31/12/1908:
“Salford Todmorden”; clerk in holy orders [marriage register]
Jan. 1909: moved
to Trinidad [Chess Amateur, Feb. 1909]
01/09/1914: The Rectory,
Couva, Trinidad, West Indies [probate records]
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Chess:
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Played for
Manchester Chess Club and Lancashire as late, at least, as 1911.
Moved to Trinidad at some time from 1911 to 1914.
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John Milton Pollitt
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Birth:
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Born 1851,
Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester; reg. Q2 1851, at Chorlton
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Death:
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05/01/1912; reg.
Q1 1912, Brompton, Kent; probate to Julia Pollitt, widow, and Dorothy
Sophia Pollitt, spinster; left £37,110 9s 6d.
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Parents:
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Thomas Pollitt,
accountant & estate agent (born 1824/25, Bury, Lancs.)
Sophia Pollitt
(born 1821/22, Leicester)
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Siblings:
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Maria Pollitt
(born 1848/49, Manchester)
Jessie Pollitt
(born 1855/56, Manchester)
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Marriage:
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to Julia
Robinson (born 1856/57, Hulme, Manchester); reg. Q1 1876, at Chorlton,
Manchester
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Children:
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Maud J. Pollitt
(born 1877/78, Moss Side, Manchester; death at age 18 reg. Q4 1896, at
Chorlton
Winifred Pollitt
(born 1882/83, Levenshulme)
Dorothy Sophia
Pollitt (born 1889/90, Levenshulme)
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/04/1861
[census]: Tamworth Court, Hulme, Manchester;
02/04/1871
[census]: 8 Chorlton Terrace, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester; clerk
03/04/1881
[census]: [Willow Bank, 18] Park Avenue, Levenshulme, Manchester;
accountant
05/04/1891
[census]: Willow Bank, [18] Park Avenue, Levenshulme, Manchester;
accountant and estate agent
31/03/1901
[census]: [Willow Bank,] 18 Park Avenue, Levenshulme, Manchester; living on
own means
02/04/1911
[census]: Woodlawn, Bickley, Kent; private means. (He signed his own name
as “J. Milton Pollitt”.)
05/01/1912 [probate]:
Woodlawn, Bickley, Kent
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Chess:
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“J. M.
Pollitt” of Manchester played in the following matches: 1883 Hull Church Inst.
v Manchester Athenaeum, 1883 Yorkshire v
Lancashire, 1884
Lancashire v Yorkshire, 1887
Yorkshire v Lancashire, 1889 Yorkshire v
Lancashire and 1890
Lancashire v Yorkshire.
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Victor H Rylski
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(Herr) Victor H
Rylski as he was usually known, was in full Victor Hipolite Lawrence de Sabor
Rylski. He had fought with the Polish Legion in the 1848 Hungarian
revolution. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, a Freemason, and
a Unionist. He was more in evidence in chess while living in Ireland.
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Birth:
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Born 1830,
Poland (Galicia), then under Austrian rule.
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Death:
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05/09/1917, at 2
Wilmont Terrace, Lisburn Road, Belfast; he was buried in Belfast City
Cemetery. His wife had predeceased him.
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Parents:
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Siblings:
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Marriage:
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1856, Belfast, Sarah Jane Newitt(or Newett) (born 1837/38,
Co. Monaghan)
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Children:
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Two daughters
and a number of sons, including
eldest son
Robert Emil Rylski (born 1858/59, died May 1891, aged 32),
Emmeline Edith
Rostron (née Rylski, 1863/64, Belfast; “known as Edith”;
married Herbert Spruce Rostron, 1909, Blackpool),
third son Alfred
Ernest Hudson Rylski (born 21/03/1865, at 50 Pakenham Place, Belfast, died
10/03/1882, on board ship in Baltimore, USA., aged very nearly 17),
De Sabor Rylski
(born 21/10/1867, Belfast),
Charles Victor
Brereton Rylski (born 1868; married 17/12/1925; died 18/03/1931, at home in
Shrewsbury Park, Belfast),
Leon Louis
Rylski (died 17/07/1921, at 2 Wilmont Terrace, Lisburn Road, Belfast).
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Residence,
Occupation:
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Spent a long
time in Ireland, mainly as a language teacher, before retiring in 1905.
In 1853 he
advertised that he had moved to 26 Upper Arthur Street (presumably
Belfast), where his French and German classes to meet the usual
times. His terms were one guinea per quarter. He offered
private tuition to individuals, families, and schools.
In 1856 he was
advertising tuition in French and German, quoting the address 11
College-Street, Belfast, and alter at both 12 Botanic Road and at 19
College Street.
In 1859 he
advertised German Classes at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast.
In September
1860 he advertised the resumption of his (private) classes at 55 Victoria
Terrace, Belfast, (a house with yard and small garden leased from a James
Wilson), and was at the same time advising of the start in October of his
classes at Royal Academical Institution, Belfast.
In November 1860
he advertised evening classes for ladies, at Belfast Model School, and
classes for gentlemen at 50 Pakenham Place, Belfast.
In 1860 he was
Master of French and German at the Coleraine Academical Institution,
Castlerock Rd, Coleraine, which was founded that year (1860), and advertised
that he also offered private tuition.
In 1862 he
advertised classes at the new Academy, Franklin Street, Belfast.
In 1862 he was
advertising that “a Class for Beginners will be Opened on Friday, the
January, at 11th January, at Belfast seminary, 81 Donegal Street”.
In 1863 he was
again advertising lessons at Belfast Model School, and a 50 Pakenham Place,
Belfast.
In 1868 he
became a naturalised British citizen.
By 1871, he had
added Spanish to his portfolio of languages offered.
1856; address
was 12 Botanic Road, Belfast
1865 & 1868;
address was 50 Pakenham Place, Belfast
1871; address
was 14 Claremont Terrace (off University Road), Belfast.
1891; address
was still 14 Claremont Terrace.
1893: address
was 59 Great Patrick Street, Belfast, when he was described as a
“merchant” when suing a form of grocers.
1901; address at
Eglantine Avenue, Belfast, when a general merchant and agent.
1907; address
was in Blackpool (in newspaper list of problem-solvers)
1911; lived in
Blackpool (80 years old, widowed retired merchant living with daughter
Emmeline Edith Rostron and her husband)
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Chess:
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In 1886 he
played (for Ireland presumably) against Scotland, drawing with G. P.
Galloway.
It is evident he
was active organisationally in chess in Belfast in 1890.
In 1892 he was
involved (organising or playing) in the 6th North of Ireland Chess Congress
In October 1894
he was elected treasurer of Belfast Chess Club.
He frequently
appeared in lists of problem-solvers in Belfast newspaper chess columns.
While resident
in Blackpool he played in lower sections of the NCCU Congresses held in
Blackpool, e.g. the Minor section at both Blackpool 1908, and Blackpool 1910.
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Edward W
Ruttle
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Birth:
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1856/57,Limerick,
Ireland [censuses & age at death]
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Death:
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1918; reg. Q3
1918, at Chorlton, aged 61
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Marriage:
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Married 1881 to
1884 wife who died at some time from 1884 to 1891
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Children:
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Samuel C, Ruttle
(born 1884/85, London)
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/04/1861: ?
02/04/1871: ?
03/04/1881
[census]: Call Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; commercial traveller for
publishers (single)
05/04/1891
[census]: 18 Duke Street, Moss Side, Manchester; commission agent (widowed,
with son)
31/03/1901: ?
02/04/1911: ?
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Chess:
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He represented
Lancashire as a Manchester player in the matches 1898 Lancashire v
Yorkshire, 1902
Yorkshire v Lancashire, 1903 Yorkshire v Lancashire,
1906 Lancashire v
Yorkshire, 1907
Lancashire v Yorkshire and 1912 Lancashire v
Yorkshire.
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Note:
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There was also
an Edward Ruttle (without a “W”) born 1855/56, Bretherton,
Lancs., cotton-loom overworker, married Eleanor, and had children Edward Ruttle
junior (born 1882/83, Blackburn) and Eleanor Ruttle junior (born 1890.91,
Blackburn). The chess-player was always named with the middle initial
“W.”, and so was the Irish-born commercial traveller and
commission agent. None of the sources found specify what the
“W.” stood for.
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