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Biographical notes on miscellaneous players from outside
Yorkshire and Lancashire.
(See Person Index for
main alphabetic index.)
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Thomas Henry Billington
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Birth:
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28/08/1865
[Gittins], Welshpool, Montgomeryshire as was (17 miles W of Shrewsbury)
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Death:
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08/12/1928
[probate], Llandudno, Caernarvonshire as was
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Parents:
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Baker &
confectioner Thomas Billington (born 1839/40, Whitchurch, Salop.) and Ann
(née Tomkinson, 1836/37, Market Drayton, Salop), who married in
1864, in Stafford
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Siblings:
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Frances Mary
Billington, born 1867, Stafford
William
Tomkinson Billington, born 1869, Stafford
and maybe more
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Marriage:
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On 07/09/1895
[Gittins] to Florence Ada Bayley (born 1868/69, Birmingham), in Kings
Norton district of Birmingham
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Children:
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none up to 1911
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Residence,
Occupation:
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02/04/1871
[census]: baker’s shop, 37 Greengate Road, Stafford; scholar
03/04/1881
[census]: 34 Queen Street, Wolverhampton; live-in assistant to confectioner
05/04/1891
[census]: 34 Queen Street, Wolverhampton; live-in assistant to confectioner
1893, moved to
Birmingham, where opened two bakery/confectionery shops [Gittins]
31/03/1901
[census]: 385 Soho Road, Handsworth, Birmingham; own bakery &
confectionery business, employing staff
02/04/1911
[census]: with wife’s parents at 88 Alston Street, Ladywood,
Birmingham; baker & confectioner
08/12/1928
[probate]: Lonsdale House, Craigydon, Llandudno, Caernarvonshire
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Chess:
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He learnt the
moves in 1882. For many years he was secretary of Wolverhampton Chess
Club. He joined St George’s Chess Club, Birmingham in 1893,
playing inter-club matches there. In the 1893
North of England v South match, he was down as a reserve for the North
team, and ended up substituting on board 3, losing his game, but receiving
praise for the resistance he offered to J. H. Blake. He was famous as
a problemist, especially as a solver, winning various prizes. His
documented chess activity as a player ranges at least from 1886 to 1904,
whereafter his activities as a problem composer and solver run through to
about 1924.
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Notes:
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He was one of
those included in The Chess Bouquet (F. R. Gittins, 1897 –
whence the photo), a collection of articles on living problemists of the
day.
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William Bridgwater
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Birth:
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1835 (08/04/1835
to 06/06/1835), Selly Oak, in the township of Northfield
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Baptism:
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20/03/1836,
Harborne, Staffs
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Death:
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03/09/1914, at
his home, Lubeck House, Washwood Heath Road, Ward End, Birmingham, after a
long illness [death notice & probate]
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Burial:
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07/09/1914,
Witton Cemetery (after service at United Methodist Church, Washwood Heath)
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Parents:
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Charles
Bridgwater (born 1802/03, Rowley, Staffs.) and Sarah Bridgwater (born
1802/03, Sedgley, Staffs.)
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Siblings:
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Benjamin
Bridgwater, born 1828/29
Jane Bridgwater,
born 1831/32
Sarah
Bridgwater, born 1833/34
Charles
Bridgwater, born 1834/35
Thomas
Bridgwater, born 1837/38
Mary Ann
Bridgwater, born 1838/39
John Bridgwater,
born Apr/May 1841
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Marriage:
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to Elizabeth
Hart (born 1835/36, Aston), 1861, Birmingham
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Children:
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Charles Edward
Bridgwater, born 1861/62, Aston
Charlotte
Bridgwater, born 1863, Aston
Kate Elizabeth
Bridgwater, born 1865/66, Aston
William
Frederick Bridgwater, born 1868, Aston
Frank Oswald
Bridgwater, born 1870/71, Aston
John Percival
Bridgwater, born 1872, Aston
Ralph Herbert
Bridgwater, born 1874, Aston
Norman Hart
Bridgwater, born 1876, Aston
Leonard Victor
Bridgwater, born 1878, Aston
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Residence,
Occupation:
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06/06/1841 [census]: Selly Oak (Northfield); father
Charles a lock-keeper on canal; (“Bridgwater”)
30/03/1851
[census]: (Selly Oak) Northfield; father Charles a toll-collector on canal,
William a die-sinker; (“Bridgwater”)
07/04/1861
[census]: visiting 23 Great Barr Street, Aston, Birmingham; die-sinker
02/04/1871
[census]: Highfield Road, Aston, Birmingham; cooper, employing 6 men and 2
boys
03/04/1881
[census]: Wycliffe House, Highfield Road, Aston; cooper, employing seven
men
05/04/1891
[census]: Shaw Hill House, (Alum Rook Road,) Shaw Hill, Aston; packing case
maker
31/03/1901
[census]: Shaw Hill House, Alum Rook Road, (Shaw Hill,) Aston, Birmingham;
packing case manufacturer
02/04/1911
[census]: Lubeck House, Ward End, Birmingham; packing case manufacturer
03/09/1914 [at
death]: Lubeck House, (Washwood Heath Road,) Ward End, Birmingham
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Chess:
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Evident in
newspaper accounts of activities of Birmingham Chess Club and
Worcestershire Chess Association from 1876 to 1902 at the 1903 Worcs. CA
AGM his absence from county team was noted, suggesting that is the point at
which he stopped playing.
He played in
both North of England v South matches, or 1893
and 1894.
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Surname:
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Chess reports
name this player with bewildering inconsistency as either “W.
Bridgwater” or “W. Bridgewater”, but the spelling in
official documents was always “Bridgwater”, and that is how the
man himself spelt it in his 1911 census return.
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