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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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John Henry Dunford
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Birth:
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15/07/1870,
Nottingham [1939 Register]
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Death:
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20/08/1943 at
Nottingham General Hospital [probate], aged 73
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Parents:
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Railway guard
John Dunford (born 1846/47, Ketton, Rutlandshire) and Eliza Jane Dunford
(née Hind, 1848, Chesterfield)
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Siblings:
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Adolphus Edward
Dunford, born 1874/75, Nottingham
Maria Emma
Dunford, born 1880, Nottingham
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Education:
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High Pavement
School, Nottingham; Nottingham University College. Fellow of
Chartered Institute of Secretaries [Nottingham Journal]
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Marriage:
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to Lucy Freeman
(born 21/10/1869, Nottingham), 1897 Nottingham
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Children:
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Cyril Freeman
Dunford, born 1901, Nottingham
Edward Dunford,
born 1877, Nottingham
Maria Emma
Dunford, born 1880, Nottingham
Alice Dunford,
born 1882/83, Nottingham
Thomas Dunford,
born 1887/88, Nottingham
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Residence,
Occupation:
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02/04/1871
[census]: (elusive)
03/04/1881
[census]: 2 Finkhill Place, Nottingham; scholar
05/04/1891
[census]: 46 Bruce Grove, Nottingham; lace warehouseman
c. Nov 1897 or
before to c. Oct 1899 [chess records]: Grimsby – reason for
being in Grimsby unclear, presumably work-related
31/03/1901
[census]: 48 Villa Street, Draycott, Derbyshire (c. 10 miles SE of centre
of Nottingham); secretary to glue & bone works
02/04/1911
[census]: 69 Lady Bay Road, West Bridgford; chartered secretary to bone
works
29/09/1939 [register]:
69 Lady Bay Road, West Bridgford; chartered secretary
20/08/1943
[probate]: 69 Lady Bay Road, West Bridgford
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Chess:
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He was active as
a player in Nottingham from about 1890, an early match appearance being on
04/10/1890 in a Nottingham Mechanics v St George’s Birmingham
match. He played both for Nottingham clubs and Nottinghamshire.
He played in both North of England v South matches, of 1893
and 1894. He was
playing in Nottingham up to 1896, but had moved to Grimsby by 1898.
While in Grimsby
he played 8 games for Grimsby against Hull, winning seven games and drawing
the other. (That may have been 4 matches with 2 games per
match.) When he left Grimsby the club made an honorary life
member. How long he was there is unclear, but was probably at least two
years.
He was then active
in Nottingham from late 1899 to World War I. He was Notts. county
captain from 1904 to World War I. He appears to have withdrawn from
over-the-board chess in the immediate post-war period.
When the Notts
County Chess Association was revived in 1922, he was made a vice-president,
and he was pressurised to resume over-the-board play. He was evident
after the war from 1923. On 13/09/1929 he visited the AGM of Codnor
Park & District Chess Club, and took on thirteen members simultaneously
winning eleven and drawing two. On 13/12/1930, he played for
Nottinghamshire against Lancashire in the English Counties final,
Nottinghamshire’s first appearance in the final; Lancashire won;
after this he retired from match play. In 1931 he was president of
West Bridgford Chess Club, and presumably for some time after, though he
seems not to have played for them in matches. In June 1939 he
replaced Mr. T. H. Tylor as Midland representative on the B.C.F. council
and executive. He “came out of retirement” to play for
Nottingham Mechanics against Mansfield on 26/06/1943, and this may have
been his last chess match.
“The late
Mr. J. H. Dunford, twice “Mayor” of West Bridgford, was one of
the finest chess players in the Midlands. He not only composed over
60 chess problems but had drawn against such acknowledged chess masters as
Gunsberg (1888), Lee (1891), Dr. Lasker and Maroczy (1900) and H. E.
Atkins, British Champion. Mr. Dunford played for Notts. against Hull
four times and won every game. He used to play top board for the
Institutes Association and the late Mr. J. A. Dixon’s team, and ever
encouraged promising youngsters.” [Nottingham Journal,
23/08/1943] One draw with Atkins was in a match Nottingham v
Leicester played at Leicester on 16/03/1895. He apparently drew
another game with Atkins. The draw with Lee was in a simultaneous
display given by Lee. The other draws mentioned were presumably also
in such displays.
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Notes:
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In1900 he was
appointed secretary to Hall’s Glue & Bone Works Ltd, Trent Side
Works, Holme Street, Meadow Lane, Nottingham, and was appointed managing
director in 1915. He was chairman of the local Urban District Council
(a post sometimes humorously termed “Mayor” of West Bridgford)
on two occasions. He served in various ways various local bodies and
organisations, and was connected with Order of Foresters for 69 years. [Nottingham
Journal 23 August 1943, which listed a number of those bodies and
organisations]
(from Kelly’s 1904 directory of Nottinghamshire)
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William Slater Fazan
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Birth:
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1850, Kensington
district of London
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Death:
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1929, Wandsworth
district of London
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Parents:
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Daniel Slater
Fazan (born 1821/22, Fulham) owner of a butchery business, and Frances
Fazan (née Slater 1822/23, Charlton, Kent) who married in 1843, in
the Kensington district of London
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Siblings:
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Frances Fazan,
born 1844/45, Kensington
Anne Jane Fazan,
born 1846/47, Kensington
William Slater
Fazan, born Jul/Aug 1850, Kensington
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Marriage:
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to Annie Beck
(born 1853/54, Kensal Green), 1876, Kensington district of London
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Children:
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William Daniel
Fazan, born 1877, Shepherds Bush
Ernest James
Fazan, born Nov/Dec 1880, Shepherds Bush
Gertrude Frances
Fazan, born 1885/86, Milburn
Arthur Cecil
Fazan, born 1890/91, Milburn
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Residence,
Occupation:
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30/03/1851
[census]: 6 Edwards Terrace, Kensington
07/04/1861
[census]: 6 Edwards Terrace, Kensington
02/04/1871
[census]: (elusive)
03/04/1881
[census]: 216 Gold Hawk Road, Hammersmith, living with parents; butcher,
having taken over from now-retired father
05/04/1891
[census]: 242 Belsize Road, Hampstead; butcher
31/03/1901
[census]: 33 Crescent Lane, Clapham; commercial clerk (having sold butchery
business?)
02/04/1911
[census]: 15 Rossiter Road, Balham; shorthand writer
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Chess:
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“W. S.
Fazan” features in newspaper reports of chess events over the period
1893 to 1905, and was presumably active before and after that period.
He was associated with the Ludgate Circus and Clapham Chess Clubs.
Outside internal club chess and inter-club team chess, he played in both
the North of England and South matches, of 1893
and 1894. He would
give simultaneous displays at smaller clubs. At Hornsey Chess Club,
on 03/10/1894, he reportedly won 8, drew 4, and lost 2. At Dunstable
Chess Club, on 02/10/1905, we won 10 games and lost 1.
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