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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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George William Lennox
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Birth:
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1859, Hythe,
Kent [censuses]
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Death:
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12/12/1908,
Cardiff, Glams. [probate]
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Parents:
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Congregational
minister William Marshall Lennox (born 1830, Stirling, Scotland; died
1906, Cardiff) and Lucretia Amelia Lennox (née Sykes, 1833/34,
Holmfirth, Yorkshire), who married in 1855, in the Huddersfield reg.
district, presumably at Holmfirth.
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Siblings:
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Mary Amelia
Lennox, born 1856, Leeds
Alice Loudon
Lennox, born 1857/58, Bedford
John James
Lennox, born 1861, Tonbridge
Caroline
Margaret Lennox, born 1862/63, Tonbridge
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Marriage:
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to Eliza Mary
Hill (born 1859/60, Bodenham, Herefordshire), 1882, Cheltenham district,
who died some time from 1891 to 1895.
to
Shrewsbury-resident Mary Ann Muldoon Bewick (born 1873/74, Cardiff), 1895,
Cardiff
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Children:
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Ivor Francis G
Lennox, born 1885/86, Cardiff
Olive Loudon
Lennox, born Jul/Aug 1890, Cardiff
both by first
wife
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Residence,
Occupation:
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-1861-1862-
[births of siblings]: Tonbridge, Kent
02/04/1871
[census]: 58 Leeming Street, Mansfield, Notts.
03/04/1881: The
Parsonage, North Place, Cheltenham, Glos.; newspaper office cashier
-1886-1890-
[births of children]: Cardiff, Glams.
05/04/1891
[census]: 14 Coldstream Terrace, Cardiff; commercial traveller
1895
[directory]: 7 St James Street, Cardiff; stationer - business premises
(“late Haynes”)
1895
[directory]: 254 Newport Road, Roath, Cardiff - his residence
1895
[directory]: note also John Lennox, litho printer, 18 Llanbleddian Gardens,
Cathays, Cardiff – possibly his brother
20/04/1895
[marriage register]: 6 St James Street, Cardiff, printer and stationer (did
he have both 6 & 7?)
1901 [directory]:
7 St James Street, Docks, Cardiff; stationer - business premises
1901
[directory]: 286 Newport Road, Cardiff
1901
[directory]: note also Lennox Bros., printers, West Bute Street (him and
brother John??)
1901
[directory]: note also Rev W. M. Lennox (his father), 59 Connaught Road,
Cardiff
31/03/1901
[census]: 286 Newport Road, Cardiff; printer and stationer
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Chess:
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“Geo. W.
Lennox” was the only Class I player in the 1889-90 Cardiff Chess Club
Handicap, and so was presumably their strongest player. He was Hon.
Secretary and Treasurer of the club in 1890-91 (and quite possibly other
seasons). He conducted a chess column in the Cardiff Evening
Express.
When H. E. Bird
gave a simultaneous display in Cardiff on 18/02/1889, he was one on the two
Cardiff players to win their games.
He played in the
5th British Amateur Championship, 1890, Manchester, finishing 7th out of 12
on 5½ out of 11.
He represented
Cardiff on board 1 in inter-club matches, as for instance
on 12/04/1889,
at Clifton, v Bristol & Clifton, scoring two draws with top Bristol
player Nelson Fedden,
on 04/04/1891,
at Neath, v Llanelly, scoring two wins against C S Read, and
on 22/04/1893,
at Newport, v Newport, scoring 1-0 and ½-½ v. A Hobbs of
Newport.
He played in
both North v South matches, of 1893
and 1894. His
participation in these matches was by virtue of his Kentish birth,
as he was resident in Cardiff at the time, not in England.
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Hubert Foster Lowe
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Birth:
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01/02/1861, Ettington,
Warks. (6 miles SE of Stratford-on-Avon) [Balliol College Oxford Register]
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Baptism:
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Death:
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14/06/1938, Kingston
Hill, Surrey [probate]
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Burial:
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Parents:
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Quaker farmer William
Bevington Lowe (born 08/09/1811, Carrington, Warks.) and Rachel Jane Lowe (née
Lloyd, 1824/25, Wednesbury; died 30/01/1904) who married 1850, Birmingham
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Siblings:
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John William
Lowe, born 1855, Ettington
Mary Margaret
Lowe, born 1857, Ettington
Sarah Beatrice Lowe,
born 1864, Ettington
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Education:
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Oliver’s
Mount School, Scarborough; then Clifton. Admitted to Balliol College
Oxford; matriculated 16/10/1879; scholar 1879-83, in Brackenbury science
school, 3rd maths mods 1881, 1st Natural Science (Chemsitry) 1882 ;
received B.A. in 1883; M.A. conferred in congregation 12/06/1886 [Balliol
College Oxford Register, Alumni Oxonienses, Reading Mercury]
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Marriage:
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to Kathleen Mary
Willmott (born 1859/60, Bayswater), 08/02/1888, Long Ditton, Surrey (by Rev.
Arthur Foster Rutty M.A., headmaster of St. Johns school, Leatherhead –
presumably a relative, e.g. cousin, in view of shared middle name) [marriage
register]
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Children:
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Irene Helen
Lowe, born 1890, St Pancras
Beryl Margaret Lowe,
born 1893, St Pancras
William Geoffrey
Lowe, born 1894, St Pancras
Humphrey
Willmott Lowe, born 1896, St Pancras
Elfrida Florence
Lowe, born 1898, St Pancras
and three others
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/04/1861
[census]: (elusive, but presumably in Ettington)
02/04/1871
[census]: Fosse Hill, Eatington (now spelt “Ettington”),
Warks.; Herbert a scholar
03/04/1881
[census]: Fosse Hill, Eatington, Warks.; Herbert an Oxford undergraduate
08/02/1888 [marriage
register]: St Andrews, Holborn; civil servant
05/04/1891
[census]: (presumably visiting) Fosse Hill, Ettington (then spelt “Eatington”),
Warks.; assistant examiner in Patent Office
31/03/1901
[census]: “Egremont”, Manorgate Road, Kingston-upon-Thames; assistant
examiner in Patent Office (place of birth now spelt “Ettington”;
name of parish formally changed not until 10/11/1948)
30/05/1904 [share
transfer]: “Egremont”, Manorgate Road, Kingston Hill (Kingston-upon-Thames)
02/04/1911
[census]: “Egremont”, Manorgate Road, Kingston-upon-Thames; examiner
in Patent Office
29/09/1939 [register]:
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Chess:
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At Oxford University
was on the chess club Committee at least in1884. Was not strong
enough to get into the 7-board teams which played annually against
Cambridge University, but represented the university in other matches over period
1882 to 1886, such as Oxford University v Oxford Town, OU v City of London
CC and OU v Clifton; also for Combined Universities v City of London CC on
30/03/1886.
After leaving
university he played primarily at and for the British Chess Club in London,
being that club’s assistant secretary in 1886-87, and secretary in
1887-88, and presumably later. He did represent other clubs from time
to time, e.g. Thames Valley in 1901.
He played in
both North of England v South matches, of 1893
and 1894.
He played in the
1901 Kent CCA congress, in Section B of the Open, finishing 3rd out of 6 on
3 out of 5, so not reaching the inter- section play-off. He
played for England in the 1902 cable match played 15&16/03/1902, on
board 8 out of 10 boards, drawing with C. J. Newman.
Thereafter there
seem few reports of his being active in chess, though he played in a 1923 Civil
Service v Surrey match.
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Notes:
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He started his
employment as a civil servant at the Patent Office in 1885, as an “Assistant
Examiner”, and was promoted to “Examiner” in 1904.
The “examination” process was presumably the assessment of applications
to patent inventions etc, and his scientific educational background will
probably have been relevant.
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