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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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Henry Clere
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Surname:
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This Birmingham
chess-player was born with the surname “Cleere”. All his official
birth, baptism, marriage, divorce, and electoral roll records up to 1889
inclusive were in the surname “Cleere”. He had, however,
been known to the chess-playing world exclusively as “H. Clere”
from as far back as 1881, and was never known as “Cleere” in
chess circles. Things then began to change in the non-chess
world. He had been “Henry Clere” in the 1891 census; the
enumerator does of course record what the householder says. He
remained “Cleere” to officialdom in electoral rolls up to at
least 1893, but around then became exclusively “Clere”.
In particular, he married Jean McClaren Stewart as “Henry
Cleere” in 1883, yet she died in 1895 as “Jean McClaren Stewart
Clere”.
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Birth:
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30/07/1832
[baptism register], parish of St. John, Westminster
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Baptism:
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16/12/1840, St John the Evangelist, Smith Square [baptism
register]
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Death:
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1898, King’s Norton, Birmingham
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Burial:
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1898, Witton Cemetery, Birmingham
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Parents:
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John Cleere
(born 1811/12; died 1841, Westminster; buried 28/02/1841, St. John the Evangelist,
Smith Square)
and Elizabeth
Anne Cleere (maiden name possibly Fowler)
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Siblings:
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John Cleere
(jun.), born 27/01/1831; baptised 16/12/1840, St
John the Evangelist, Smith Square [baptism register]
Alfred Cleere,
born 11/08/1834; baptised 16/12/1840, St John
the Evangelist, Smith Square [baptism register]
Emily Esther
Cleere, probably born c. 1836; baptised 13/01/1839, St John the Evangelist, Smith Square [baptism register]
Elizabeth Jane
Cleere, born 1838; baptised 13/01/1839, St John
the Evangelist, Smith Square [baptism register]
Eleanor Augusta
Cleere, born 26/06/1840; baptised 14/12/1840, St
John the Evangelist, Smith Square [baptism register]
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Marriage:
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(1) married
Margaret Elizabeth Mcgerray, 1857, St Peter,
Eaton Square, Pimlico;
divorced from
Margaret Elizabeth Cleere 1870.
(2) married Jean
McClaren Stewart (born 1842/43, Glasgow), 1883, King’s
Norton.
“Jean
McClaren Stewart Clere” died 1895.
(3) married
Marion Adams (born 1868/69, Birmingham), 1895, Birmingham.
Widowed Marion
Clere (with one child) married widower grocer John Henry Edwards (with 3
children) in 1907.
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Children:
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Henry Clere
junior, born 08/03/1896 [DoB 1939 Register]
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Residence,
Occupation:
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30/03/1851 [census]:
10 Little Tufton Street, parish of St. John the Evangelist, with widowed
grandmother Patty Fowler; carpenter
07/04/1861
[census]: (elusive)
02/04/1871
[census]: (elusive)
03/04/1881
[census]: 17 Brighton Road, King’s Norton;
surveyor’s clerk; living with “Jean McClaren Stewart
Clere” (not yet married)
1889 [electoral
roll]: Cheltenham Road East, Woodford
1890 [rate
book]: 3 Holart Place, parish of St George
Hanover Square
05/04/1891
[census]: 29 Hampton Road, Handsworth, Stafford; architect & surveyor
(wife called “Jean McLaren Clere”)
1893 [electoral
roll]: Benhill Street, Sutton, Surrey (“Henry Cleere”)
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Chess:
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No newspaper
references to “H. Cleere” in connection with chess.
Newspaper
references to “H. Clere” in connection with Birmingham Chess club
are evident from 1881 to 1895. He may have given up chess after third
marriage.
He was Honorary
Secretary of Birmingham Chess Club in 1883, and 1892, and possibly the
intervening period, and before/after.
He was contact
for Warks., Worcs., Staffs., and Salop. for those seeking to play for the
North in the N v S match of 1894.
He himself
played in both North of England v South matches, of 1893 and 1894.
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Notes:
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Edward Heath Collier
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Birth:
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1858, Downton,
Wilts.
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Baptism:
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Death:
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1928, Leicester
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Grandparents:
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Alderman, miller
& corn-factor, John Collier (born 21/12/1791, Kettering, Northants.;
died 13/04/1874, Leicester, age 82) and Hephzibah Collier (born, 1793/94,
Walgrove, Northants., daughter of James Hobson, farmer, and wife Susanna)
who married on 17/12/1816 at Kettering St Paul
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Aunts &
Uncles
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Susanna Mary
Collier, born 28/01/1824, parents’ home in Union Street, Leicester
[nonconformist birth register]
James Hobson
Collier, born 16/04/1826, parents’ home in Union Street, Leicester
[nonconformist birth register]; died 1855, Leicester
Alfred William
Collier, born 10/07/1829, parents’ home in Union Street, Leicester
[nonconformist birth register] – deaf & dumb 1861
Hephzibah Clara
Collier, born 19/02/1832, parents’ home in Union Street, Leicester
[nonconformist birth register]; d.30/03/1908.
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Parents:
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John Thomas
Collier, born 08/06/1822, parents’ home in High Cross Street,
Leicester [nonconformist birth register], Baptist minister, and Melliscent
(not Millicent - née White, 1821/22, Cirencester) who married at
Cirencester in 1848
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Siblings:
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Daniel White
Collier, born 1849, Downton
Susan Hephzibah
Collier, born 1851, Downton
James Walgrave
Collier, born 1855/56, Downton
and probably
some or all of the following, who may have died young:
George Collier,
born 1853
John Spencer
Collier, born 1853
Alfred Collier,
born 1857
Margaret
Collier, born 1860
John Howard
Collier, born 1863
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Marriage:
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to Eliza Mary
(née Webb, 1862) in 1889
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Children:
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Joan Melliscent
Collier, born Apr/May 1890, Leicester
Miriam Collier,
born 1892/93, Leicester
Philip Edward
Collier, born 1894/95, Leicester
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/04/1861
[census]: Wick South Lane, Downton Wilts.
02/04/1871 [census]:
40 Southgate Street, Leicester; scholar (living with grandparents)
03/04/1881
[census]: 40 Southgate Street, Leicester; manager in a flour mill (living
with grandparents)
05/04/1891
[census]: 24 Gopsall Street, Leicester; corn merchant
31/03/1901
[census]: 24 Gopsall Street, Leicester; electrical engineer’s clerk
02/04/1911
[census]: 46 Melbourne Road, Leicester; electrical engineer
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Chess:
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Newspaper
references to the chess activity of “E. H Collier” occur over
the period 1883 to 1921. He played mainly in connection with
Leicester Chess Club, but also teams of Leicestershire and the Midland
Counties Chess Union. He played in both the North of England v South
of England matches, of 1893
and 1894.
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Notes:
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Chess references
seem never to include full forenames, but no other person in the Leicester
area matches “E. H. Collier”, and the period of chess activity
matches the adulthood of the person described here, so the identification
seems correct.
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