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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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Eugène Lucien Felix Hamburger
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Birth:
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1857/58, Paris,
France
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Death:
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11/12/1924,
Hove, Sussex
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Parents:
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Marcus Hamburger
(dealer in precious stones, born c. 1815-18, Poland; died 29/03/1881,
Clerkenwell) and Emilie/Emily Hamburger (born 1829/30, Paris, France)
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Siblings:
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Arthur
Hamburger, born 1853/54, France
Therese Rachel
Hamburger, born 1862/63, Bloomsbury
Louis Joseph Hamburger,
born 1868/69, Clerkenwell
Gustave Adolphe
Hamburger, born 1870, Holborne
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Marriage:
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to Beatrice
Newcome Cohen (born 1868, Whitechapel), 1908, City of London
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Children:
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none
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/04/1861
[census]: parents boarding Brydges Street, Westminster (children not listed
– still in France?)
02/04/1871
[census]: 26 Woodbridge Street, Clerkenwell; father precious stone-dealer,
Arthur and Eugene “employed at home”
03/04/1881
[census]: 26 Woodbridge Street, Clerkenwell; widowed mother, Arthur and
Eugene precious stone-dealers
05/04/1891
[census]: 6 Wilmington Square, Clerkenwell; mother and brothers all
involved in precious-stone and gold business
31/03/1901
[census]: 6 Wilmington Square, Clerkenwell; Eugene and Gustav diamond and
gold merchants
02/04/1911
[census]: 21 Skardu(?) Street, NW London; Eugene (diamond/precious stone
dealer) and wife, no children
11/12/1924
[probate]: 17 Langdale Gardens, Hove, Sussex
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Chess:
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Mentioned in
newspaper reports of activities of the City of London Chess Club from 1884
to 1902.
He played in the
1894 North of England v
South match.
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Notes:
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In chess reports
Eugene was referred to almost exclusively as “E. Hamburger”, or
“Mr. Hamburger”. In legal notices in the London
Gazette he was “Eugene Lucien Hamburger”, and in marriage
and death-related documents he was “Eugene Lucien Felix
Hamburger” in full or at least with all initials, but in none of
these cases with a grave accent. He signed his 1911 census return
“Eugène Hamburger” (with the grave accent). An
1889 reference to “E. H. Hamburger” seems an error.
He was probably
of Jewish extraction on his father’s side.
Eugene was in
partnership with Hans Meyer and Leopold Lehmann as toy and fancy goods
merchants to 31/12/1903, when the partnership dissolved.
Eugene and
Gustave were in partnership as dealers in precious stones, at 37 and 38
Hatton Garden, London, in the name of “E. M. Hamburger” (their
grandfather’s name ??), which partnership was dissolved by mutual
consent as from 19/06/1922.
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Charles Hanson
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Birth:
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1857,
Wirksworth, Derbys.
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Baptism:
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25/10/1857,
Wirksworth
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Death:
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01/11/1913,
Burton-upon-Trent
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Parents:
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Hairdresser Thomas
Hanson (born 1817/18, Burton, Staffs.) and Mary Hanson (née Harrop
or Herrap, 1818/19, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.) who married in 1850 in
Nottingham reg. District
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Siblings:
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William Hanson,
born 1850/51, Wirksworth
Jane Hanson,
born 1852/53, Wirksworth
James Hanson,
born 1854/55, Wirksworth
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Marriage:
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to Louisa (born
1862/63, Scotland) 1885/86
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Children:
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Eveline Mary
Hanson, born 1887/88, Horninglow, Staffs.
Reginald Charles
Hanson, born 1889/90, Stapenhill, Derbys. (now a district of
Burton-upon-Trent, over the Trent, and now in Staffs.)
Norman Millar
Hanson, born 1894/95, Stapenhill, Derbys.
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/04/1861
[census]: St John Street, Wirksworth; father a hairdresser
02/04/1871
[census]: 11 Borough Road, Burton-upon-Trent; Charles an errand boy
03/04/1881
[census]: 12 Borough Road, Burton-upon-Trent; Charles a Civil Service
telegraph clerk
05/04/1891
[census]: 16 Malvern Hill, Stapenhill, Derbys.; Charles a postal clerk
31/03/1901
[census]: 111 Derby Street, Horninglow; Charles sorting clerk and
telegraphist
02/04/1911
[census]: 113 Derby Street, Burton-upon-Trent; Charles sorting clerk and
telegraphist
01/11/1913 [probate]: 113
Derby Street, Burton-upon-Trent
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Chess:
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Played variously
for Trinity Church Institute (Burton), Burton Chess Club, Burton Institute
Chess Club (same thing?), Derby, Midland Railway Institute, Derbyshire (by
birth qualification), and Staffordshire (by residence qualification), as
evidenced by newspaper reports over the period 1875 to 1912.
(Burton-upon-Trent is only just within Staffordshire, and Derby is only
about 10 miles to the NE.)
Examples of
matches he played in: the 1882 Leeds v Midland
Railway Institute match, the 1884 Leeds v Midland
Railway Institute match and the 1893
North of England v South match.
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Notes:
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Death recorded
in the Staffordshire Sentinel of Wednesday 16/07/1913 as follows:
“It is
with great regret that we hear of the death, which occurred last Tuesday
week, of Mr. C. Hanson, of Burton, at the age of 55. He was well
known to the older members locally, having met many of them across the
board in the Hickman Cup and other matches. Numerous times the
present writer has waged friendly battle with him, and in addition to
finding him a worthy foeman, he could accept the inevitable or deliver it
with the true chess player’s modesty. His death is a distinct
loss to Staffordshire.”
Death also noted
at the Staffordshire CA in November 1913, and later on probate records.
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Alfred Henry Hyde
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Birth:
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15/09/1867,
Ladywood, Birmingham
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Death:
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1851, Birmingham,
aged 83
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Parents:
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In 1891, retired
schoolmaster Edward Thomas Ensor (born 1811/12, Dover) whose then-wife was
Ursula F Ensor (born 1835-39, Bishop Froom, Herefordshire; died 1926/27, West
Bromwich district) was stated to be step-father to Alfred and Florence
(presumably Alfred’s sister). Perhaps Alfred was Ursula’s
son by a previous marriage. Background details elusive.
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Siblings:
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Florence Sarah
Hyde (born 1874/75, Birmingham)
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Marriage:
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to Ada Maud
Evans (born 03/01/1867, Birmingham), in 1893, at Birmingham
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Children:
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Ada Lilian Edith
Hyde (born 1895/96, Birmingham)
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Residence,
Occupation:
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02/04/1871
[census]: (elusive)
03/04/1881
[census]: (elusive)
05/04/1891
[census]: 175 Hunters Road, Handsworth, Staffs.; stationer’s clerk
31/03/1901
[census]: 241 Burbury Street, Aston Manor, Birmingham, Warks.;
stationer’s traveller
02/04/1911
[census]: 6 Leyton Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, Warks.; commercial
traveller for a wholesale stationery firm
29/09/1939 [register]:
284 Perry Common Road, Birmingham, Warks. ; commercial traveller for
a wholesale stationery firm
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Chess:
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Newspaper
reports of his chess activities run initially from 1894 to 1902, at which
point, for reasons of health problems, he stepped down from the captaincy
of the Bohemians Chess Club in the Birmingham league (latter formed about
1898). There are odd references in 1904, 1905 and 1914. He
apparently became more active in the Bohemians Chess Club from 1922 to 1927.
He played in the 1894 North v
South of England match.
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Notes:
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No concrete
identification of this player, such as a chess obituary, or full name in a chess
context, or address as a chess official is evident, but this is the only
person answering to “A. H. Hyde” living in the Birmingham area
in, say, 1891. An Albert Henry Hyde was born in the King’s
Norton area in 1865, but later died at the age of 13. An Albert Harry
Hyde was born in Birmingham in 1864, but is untraceable thereafter.
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James Thomas Heppell
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Birth:
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1856, Stepney,
London
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Death:
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02/02/1915,
Stoke Newington, London [Law Times, 13/02/1915; probate]
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Parents:
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Master mariner
James Robert Heppell (born 1823/24; died 1877) and Eliza Harriet Heppell
(née Sedgewick, 1830/31, City of London; died 1917/18, when age
understated at 84, Brighton) who married in 1855 in Stepney, London.
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Siblings:
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Francis Henry
Heppell, born 1859, City of London
Henry Robert
Heppell, born 1861, City of London
Elizabeth
Frances Heppell, born 1863, City of London
Albert H
Heppell, born 1866, City of London
Annie
Sedg(e)wick Heppell, born Apr/May 1869, City of London
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Marriage:
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to Lydia Denby
(born 1857, Islington; daughter of Thomas William Denby & Martha Denby,
née Wright, of Highbury New Park) on 02/06/1881, at St
Augustine’s, Highbury New Park
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Children:
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Martha Denby
Heppell, born 1882, Islington
Ruth Denby
Heppell, born 1884, Islington
Harry Denby
Heppell, born 1886, Islington
Frank Denby
Heppell, born 1888/89, Stoke Newington
Marjorie Denby
Heppell, born 1893, Stoke Newington
Thomas Reginald
Heppell, born 1895, Stoke Newington
William Eric
Heppell, born 1897, Stoke Newington; died 1897/98 (under 12 months of age),
Stoke Newington
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/04/1861
[census]: elusive (father possibly at sea)
02/04/1871
[census]: 22 Richmond Crescent, Islington, London; father unemployed master
mariner, James a scholar
03/04/1881
[census]: 26 Richmond Crescent, Islington, London (apparently move 2 doors
along the street); solicitor’s managing clerk
05/04/1891
[census]: 55 Fairholt Road, Stoke Newington, London; solicitor’s
managing clerk
31/03/1901
[census]: 55 Fairholt Road, Stoke Newington, London; solicitor (employing
staff)
02/04/1911
[census]: 55 Fairholt Road, Stoke Newington, London; solicitor (employing
staff)
02/02/1915 [at
death]: 55 Fairholt Road, Stoke Newington, London
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Chess:
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In the 1878-79
Handicap Tournament of the City of London Chess Club, in which
participants were placed in six classes to determine the odds given by a
stronger opponent (the “handicap”), “Mr. Heppell”,
as a fifth class 5 player, beat H E Bird (a first class player) in the final,
so becoming the winner. (The semi-final game in which Bird had beaten
William Norwood Potter was believed at the time to be the longest chess
game on record, at 143 moves, taking sixteen hours of play.)
In the British
Chess Club 2nd Class tournament of 1886, he finished 6th out of 6 with a
single win and no draws.
He represented
the City of London club in matches from 1883 or earlier. In 1883 he
appeared on board 2 for City of London CC against Cambridge University.
In 1887, he
played in the 2nd British Amateur Chess Championship, finishing 4th out of
8 in preliminary section A. (Only the top 2 qualified for the Final
Section.)
He played in
both the North of England v South matches, of 1893
and 1894.
In 1895 he was on
board 9 of 10 for England in a somewhat ill-fated radio match (they ran out
of time) between England and the Manhattan Chess Club.
In 1897, he
played in a 10-player selection tournament for the England cable match team,
finishing 9th and so not getting into the team.
From around 1898
he seems to have switch to representing the British Chess Club (London) in
matches, as for instance when he played for the British Chess Club against
the chess circle of the National Liberal Club on 05/02/1898.
As late as 13/03/1908
he played board 3 for Middlesex against Somerset.
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