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Biographical notes on Lancashire players who played
against Yorkshire, or participated in events in Yorkshire.
(See Person Index for
main alphabetic index.)
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John Rawlinson Barling
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Birth:
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20/11/1835,
Rodwell, near Weymouth, Dorset [Protestant Dissenters’ Birth
Register, &c];
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Death:
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1908; reg. Q4
1908, at St.Pancras, London, at age 71
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Parents:
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John Barling,
dissenting minister (born 1804/05, Weymouth, Dorest)
Elizabeth
Kitson, daughter of Riley Kitson, spirit merchant of Halifax, and Elizabeth
Kitson (born 1806/07, Halifax)
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Siblings:
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Sarah Louise
Berling (born 1839/40, Bristol)
Eliza Jane
Berling (born 1844/45, Halifax)
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Education:
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B.A., London
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Marriage:
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Emily Frances
Wailes (born 1846/47, Beacon Banks, N.R. of Yorks.), of St. Marylebone,
daughter of Francis Wailes, gent, on 16/11/1871, at St. Marylebone,
Westminster
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Children:
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None up to
03/04/1881
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Residence,
Occupation:
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30/03/1851: 11
Church Street, Halifax; scholar at home
07/04/1861: The
Firs, Woodlands Park, Timperley, Cheshire (visitor);
solicitor’s articled law clerk
02/04/1871:
Woodlands Park, Timperley, Cheshire (visiting same people as 10
years earier!); solicitor
16/11/1871: Old
Trafford, Manchester; solicitor [marriage register]
03/04/1881: 7
Marine Parade, Birkenhead Road, Seacombe, Wallasey (lodger); solicitor
05/04/1891: ?
31/03/1901: ?
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Chess:
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Member of
Liverpool Chess Club in early 1880s.
Played for
Lancashire in the 1883
Yorkshire v Lancashire and 1884 Lancashire v Yorkshire
matches.
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Rev. Arthur William Baxter
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Birth:
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01/01/1865,
Manchester
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Death:
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10/06/1922,
Rochdale, aged 57
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Parents:
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David Baxter.
commercial traveller (born 1836/37, Linthwaite, on periphery of
Huddersfield)
Eliza(beth) Jackson
(born 1837/38, Mossley)
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Siblings:
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Herbert Baxter
(born 1867/68, Manchester)
Frederick (born
1868/69, Manchester)
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Marriage:
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Mary Alice Gadd
(born 1865, Nottingham), 1891, Chorlton
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Children:
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Arthur Oswald
Baxter (born 1892, Manchester)
George Herbert
Baxter (born 1894/95, Bolton)
Frederic Lionel
Baxter (born 1896, Bolton)
Helen Florence
Mabel Baxter (born 1898, Bolton)
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Residence,
Occupation:
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03/04/1881: The
Ferns, Dickenson Road, Rusholme; scholar
05/04/1891:
visiting Oswestry Grammar School. Upper Brook Street, Oswestry; assistant
[school] master
31/03/1901: 187 Drake
Street, Rochdale; clergyman in Church of England (hence ordained sometime 1891
to 1991)
02/04/1911: 183
Yorkshire Street, Rochdale; clergyman in established church
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Chess:
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Played for
Lancashire in the 1907
Lancashire v Yorkshire match and the 1912 Lancashire v
Yorkshire match.
Played in
the championship section of the
1913 NCCU Congress.
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Alfred Beakbane
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Birth:
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26/08/1843,
Bootle [Hardshaw West quaker register]; reg. Q4 1843, at
Walton-on-the-Hill, West Derby, Liverpool
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Baptism:
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Death:
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30/07/1886; reg.
Q3 1886, West Derby, Liverpool, at age 42; probate to Eliza Fanny Beakbane,
widow; left £7,740 18s 3d.
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Parents:
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Thomas Beakbane
Eliza H Beakbane
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Siblings:
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Marriage:
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to Eliza Fanny
[maiden name?] (born 1847/48, London) at some time from 1861 to 1871
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Children:
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Alfred B
Beakbane (1869/70, Seaforth, Lancs.)
Charles F
Beakbane (1873/74, Seaforth, Lancs.)
Frances M.
Beakbane 1877/78, Great Crosby, Lancs.)
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Residence,
Occupation:
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30/03/1851:
07/04/1861: 45
Rumford Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester (home of brother-in-law);
apprentice to leather dealer
02/04/1871:
Sandown Road, Litherland, Lancs.; tanner employing 21 men
03/04/1881:
Stanley Villas [sic], Liverpool Road, Great Crosby, Lancs.; tanner
employing 25 men
30/07/1886:
Stanley Villa [sic], Liverpool Road, Great Crosby, Lancs.; tanner [probate
records]
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Chess:
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He was a
member of Liverpool Chess Club, being active there from the 1870s to the
year of his untimely death. He played against Yorkshire in the 1884 Lancashire v Yorkshire
match.
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Robert Atwood Beaver
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Birth:
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1846, Didsbury,
Manchester; reg. Q3 1846, at Chorlton
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Death:
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12/04/1901;
reg.Q2 1901, at West Derby, Liverpool, at age 54; probate to Robert Atwood
Beaver [junior], M.D., Ernest Liordet Probst, produce-broker, Hugh Atwood
Beaver, physician and surgeon, Percy John Atwood Beaver, produce-broker;
left £89,839 5s 8d
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Parents:
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John Atwood
Beaver (born 1801/02, Angelsey)
Charlotte E
Beaver (née Christie, 1817/18, Manchester)
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Siblings:
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Rose Beaver (born 1839/40,
Manchester)
Hugh Bowland Beaver (born
1840/41, Didsbury)
Isabella Beaver (born 1844/45,
Didsbury)
Julia M Beaver (born 1848/49,
Didsbury)
Charlotte Louisa Beaver (born
1849/50, Didsbury) – [known as Louisa in 1861 census]
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Marriage:
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1865 or before
to Charlotte Louise [née ?] (born 1844/45, Caistor, Lincolnshire)
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Children:
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Robert Atwood
Beaver, junior (born 13/09/1865, Chorlton; baptised 02/12/1865, St. Paul,
Brunswick Street, Manchester)
Ada L A Beaver (born 1866/67, Manchester)
W A Beaver (born 1868/69, Manchester)
Percy John
Atwood Beaver (born 1869/70, Manchester)
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Residence,
Occupation:
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30/03/1851:
Didsbury; scholar at home [census]
07/04/1861: 15
Circus, Bath, Somerset (with widowed mother, her parents, and his
siblings); scholar (conceivably taught by Rev. Edward Pelham Pierpoint
and/or Edmund Thorold??) [census]
02/12/1865: 96
Brunswick Street, Manchester; cotton broker [baptism register entry for
John Atwood Beaver, junior]
02/04/1871: 31
Osborn Road, West Derby, Liverpool; cotton broker salesman
03/04/1881:
05/04/1891:
31/03/1901:
12/04/1901: 23
Esplanade, Waterloo, Lancashire [probate records]
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Chess:
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His debut for
Lancashire against Yorkshire was the 1883 Yorkshire v
Lancashire match on 20/01/1883, and played in the 1884 Lancashire v Yorkshire
match. He was active thereafter at least until the late 1880s, though
he seems to have dropped out of county chess.
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Notes:
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It is not wholly
clear whether the chess-playing “R. A. Beaver” was the one born
in 1846, or his son born in 1865. However, if the “R. A.
Beaver” playing for Lancashire against Yorkshire on 20/01/1883 was
the son, then he’d be only 17 years and 4 months old, so the father,
described here, would appear to be the chess-player.
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Percy Francis Blake
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(photo from Chess
Bouquet)
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Birth:
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06/12/1873,
Manchester; reg. Q1 1874, at Chorlton
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Death:
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26/03/1936;
reg.Q1 1936, at Runcorn, at age 62; probate to Mary Jane Blake, widow; left
£459 12s 3d
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Parents:
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Frederick Blake
(born 1832/33, Trowbridge, Wilts.), Sophia Blake (born 1830/31, Mere,
Wilts.)
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Siblings:
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Fanny S Blake
(born 1857/58,
Lucy Blake (born
1863/64,
Lillian M Blake
(born 1866/67,
Florence Blake (born
1867/68,
Austin Blake
(born 1867/68,
Bertram Blake
(born 1869/70,
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Marriage:
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On 07/09/1901,
at Edge Hill, Lancs., to Mary Jane Patterson (born 1875/76, Romiley,
Cheshire), daughter of Robert Patterson
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Children:
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none (at least
in the first 9 years of marriage).
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Residence,
Occupation:
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03/04/1881: 2
Queen’s Terrace, Clarence Road, Moss Side, Manchester; scholar
05/04/1891: 481
Stretford Road, Stretford, Manchester; electrical work
31/03/1901: 30
Dodge Street, West Derby (boarder), Liverpool; telegraph linesman
02/04/1911: 83
Lumley Street, Gatson, Liverpool; telegraph linesman for a railway company
26/03/1936: 4
Albert Road, Grappenhall, Cheshire [probate records]
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Chess:
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Joined
Manchester Chess Club in 1891 [1]. In 1894 he won a brilliancy prize
offered by the Manchester Weekly Times [1]. He was played for
Lancashire as a Manchester player from 1899 or earlier to 1901 or after,
then as a Liverpool player from 1904, in the following matches: 1898 Lancashire v
Yorkshire, 1899
Yorkshire v Lancashire, 1900 Lancashire v Yorkshire,
1901 Yorkshire
Lancashire, 1904
Yorkshire v Lancashire, 1905 Yorkshire v Lancashire,
1906 Lancashire v
Yorkshire, and then after an absence 1912 Lancashire v
Yorkshire.
He was famous as
a problemist perhaps more than as a player. Over 400 of his published
problems date from 1890 to 1936.
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Ref:
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[1] Chess
Bouquet (F. R. Gittins, 1897)
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Isidore Augustus Galbois Boulaye
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Birth:
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1854,
Manchester; reg. Q1 1854, Chorlton, Lancs.
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Death:
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21/01/1909, 5
Rook Street, Manchester; reg. Q1 1909 at age 54; probate to Rev. John Galbois
Boulaye, clerk in holy orders; left £1,206 3s 4d
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Parents:
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William Boulaye,
merchant
Jane Boulaye
(born 1805/06, Humbleton, Yorks.)
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Siblings:
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John Galbois
Boulaye (born 1839/40)
William Boulaye,
junior (born 1836/37)
Barnard Boulaye
(born 1843/44)
Jane H D Boulaye
(born 1845/46, Manchester)
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Marriage:
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apparently never
married
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/04/1861: 58
Lloyd(?) Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock; scholar
02/04/1871: 7
Islington Square, Salford; clerk
03/04/1881: 31
Rawson Street, Farnworth; cotton yarn manufacturer’s agent
05/04/1891: 31
Rawson Street, Farnworth; cotton merchant and agent
31/03/1901: ?
21/01/1909: 3
Egerton Crescent, Withington, Manchester, and 5 Rock Street,
Manchester
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Chess:
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Matches he
played in matches against Yorkshire or Yorkshire clubs included the matches
1883 Yorkshire v
Lancashire, 1883
Hull Church Inst. v Manchester Athenaeum, and 1887 Yorkshire v Lancashire.
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Note:
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His second name,
or the initial “A.”, were used in official documentation of his
birth and death, and in some year’s census records. The 1871
census had him as “Isidore Auguste G. Boulaye”, using the
French form of his second name. “Galbois” was extensively
used in the wider Boulaye family, which was of French origin. In
chess records he was usually referred to simply as I. G. Boulaye, or some
typographical error based thereon. The Boulaye family was of French
origin.
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Richard Clarkson Boyer
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Birth:
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1842, Hathern,
Leics.; reg. Q2 1842, at Loughborough, Peterborough, Leics.
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Death:
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1913; reg. Q4
1913, at Bucklow, Ches., aged 71
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Parents:
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Edward Boyer
(1816/17, Leicester), corn factor, later cotton manufacturer &c
Mother: Ann
Boyer (1813/14, Newport, E. Yorks. – 7 miles E of Howden; death reg.
Q1 1864, at Ashton-under-Line)
Step-mother:
Susannah Wesley Fildes Boyer (née Susannah Wesley Fildes, 1840,
Strangeways, Manchester, baptised 17/09/1840; daughter of James Fildes,
grocer and calico printer, and Mary Fildes); only a year older than her
step-son; retained her maiden name before her married name.
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Siblings:
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Frederick C
Boyer (born 1853/54, Bowdon, Ches.)
Edward A Boyer
(born1855/56, Bowdon, Ches.)
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Marriage:
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seems not to
have married (remained unmarried at least to age 58)
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Residence,
Occupation:
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30/03/1851
[census]: Stamford Road (south side), Bowdon, Ches. (now Greater
Manchester); scholar
07/04/1861
[census]: Langham Road, Bowdon; apprentice warehouseman
02/04/1871
[census]: Stamford Road, Bowdon; grey cloth agent
03/04/1881
[census]: Skiffington Mount, Enville Road, Bowdon; grey cloth merchant
05/04/1891
[census]: Hale Road, Hale, Cheshire (a mile and a half to the E of Bowden);
cloth merchant
31/03/1901
[census]: Armidale(?), Spring Road, Bowden;
02/04/1911
[census]: ?
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Chess:
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He lived just on
the Cheshire side of the county border with Lancashire, and played chess in
Manchester, representing Lancashire in the matches: 1883 Yorkshire v
Lancashire, 1884
Lancashire v Yorkshire and 1889 Yorkshire v Lancashire.
Later on he represented Cheshire in the match 1908 Cheshire v Yorkshire.
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Christen Brevig
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Birth:
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1851,
Christiania (as Oslo was known at the time), Norway
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Death:
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1914; reg. Q4
1914, at age 63, at Chorlton
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Marriage:
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to Amy Rebecca
Woolmore (born 1851/52, Stepney, London) reg. Q3 1878
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Children:
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Elsie Brevig
(born 1879/80, Heaton Chapel, Lancs.)
Agnes Brevig
(born Jan/Feb/Mar, 1881, Heaton Norris / Heaton Chapel, Lancs.)
Dorothy Brevig
(born 1882/83, Heaton Chapel, Lancs.)
Norman Elling
Brevig (born 1886/87, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Cheshire)
of whom one had
died by 02/04/1911
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Residence,
Occupation:
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02/04/1871: 1
Stamford Street, Sale, Cheshire (boarder); clerk
03/04/1881: 3
Woodland Villas, Heaton Norris, Lancs.; clerk in Manchester shipping trade
05/04/1891:
Queen’s Road, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Cheshire; shipping merchant
31/03/1901:
Queen’s Road, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Cheshire; shipping merchant,
woollen and cotton goods
02/04/1911: 1
Queen’s Road, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Ches.; departmental manager in
Manchester export trade (of Norwegian nationality)
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Chess:
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Recorded as a
Lancashire player from 20/01/1883 or before to 08/03/1890 or later, then as
a Cheshire player from 25/03/1905 or before to 18/01/1908 or after.
Matches he played in included: 1883 Hull Church Inst.
v Manchester Athenaeum, 1883 Yorkshire v
Lancashire, 1884
Lancashire v Yorkshire, 1889 Yorkshire v
Lancashire, 1890
Lancashire v Yorkshire, 1896 Yorkshire v Cheshire,
1905 Yorkshire v
Cheshire, 1908
Cheshire v Yorkshire.
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Adolph Davidovich Brodsky
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Birth:
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21/03/1851 (old
style, = 02/04/1851), Taganrog, Russia
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Death:
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22/01/1929, at
High Elms Nursing Home, Victoria Park, Manchester; reg. Q1 1929, South
Manchester; cremated at Manchester Crematorium; probate to Anna Brodsky; left
£2,379 13s 4d. (Wife, Anna Brodsky, died 02/10/1929.)
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Parents:
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Jewish
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Education:
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Studied the
violin under Joseph Hellmesberger, in Vienna
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Marriage:
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1880 married
Anna Lvovna Skadovskaya (born 1856/57, Russia) at Sebastopol
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Children:
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None
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Residence,
Occupation:
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1875 joined
Moscow Conservatory
1883 to 1891:
professor at the Leipzig Conservatory
1891 to 1894:
leader of the New York Symphony Orchestra
1894 came to
England to teach at the Royal Manchester College of Music
1895 to 1896
concert master of Manchester’s Hallé Orchestra, at invitation
of Charles Hallé, and violin teacher at the Royal Manchester College
of Music
1896 became
Principal Musician at the Royal Manchester College of Music
31/03/1901: 40
Acomb Lane, Chorlton-upon-Medlock; Musician Principal, Royal Manchester
College of Music
02/04/1911: 3
Laurel Mount, Bowdon, Cheshire (now Greater Manchester); teacher of violin,
Principal R.M.C.M., Mus.D.
22/01/1929: 3
Laurel Mount, Bowdon, Cheshire
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Chess:
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Recorded as
playing for Manchester and Lancashire at least from 1899 to 1903, and for
Liverpool and Lancashire at least in 1904, and for Cheshire from 1908 or
before.
1898 Lancashire v
Yorkshire
1899 Yorkshire v Lancashire
1900 Lancashire v Yorkshire
1901 Bradford v
Manchester
1903 Yorkshire v Lancashire
1904 Yorkshire v Lancashire
1908 Cheshire v Yorkshire
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Other:
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Variously listed
as “Prof. A. Brodsky” (having been a “professor” in
Moscow and Leipzig) or “Dr. A. Brodsky” (having been awarded an
honorary music doctorate in 1902 by Victoria University) as well as simply
“A. Brodsky”. He spelt his forename as
“Adolf” before coming to England, but thereafter as
“Adolph”, which is how he himself spelt it in the 1911
census. He rarely himself used his middle name.
On 04/12/1881,
in Vienna, he was the soloist at the premiére of Tchaikovsky's
Violin Concerto in D major, subsequently becoming its dedicatee.
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