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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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Dr John Hepworth Shaw
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Birth:
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1865/66,
Liverpool; reg. Q1 1866, Liverpool
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Death:
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1838; reg. Q3
1938, Liverpool South, aged 72
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Parents:
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John Shaw (born
1817/18, South Kirkby, Yorks.; pharmaceutical chemist), Malina Shaw
(1829/30, Pontefract, Yorks.)
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Siblings:
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Lucy Beatrice
Malina Shaw (born 1864/65, Liverpool)
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Marriage:
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still single on
02/04/1911
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Residence,
Occupation:
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02/04/1871: 24
Great George Place, Liverpool
03/04/1881: 30
Great George Place, Liverpool; scholar
05/04/1891: 21
St. James Road, Liverpool; registered general medical practitioner
31/03/1901: 1
Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool; head surgeon (apparently in a medical
practice, as there were also two assistant surgeons and a matron)
02/04/1911: 9
Dovedale Road, Mossley Hill, Liverpool; physician and surgeon
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Chess:
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Member of
Liverpool Chess Club
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William Briggs Shaw
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Birth:
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1859,
Hogsthorpe, Lincs
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Death:
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1921 Chorlton
district
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Parents:
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1) Joseph Eldin
Shaw (born 1825/26, Althorpe, Lincs.) and Annie Briggs (born c. 1837,
Hogsthorpe, daughter of inn-keeper William Briggs; died 1861, Spilsby reg. dist.)
who married in 1857, in the Spilsby Reg. district (probably in Hogsthorpe).
2) Widowed
Joseph Eldin Shaw, then of Doncaster, remarried, to Eleanor Spring Rice, on
24/05/1863, in Conisbrough, near Doncaster, Yorkshire.
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Half-Siblings:
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Emily Shaw, born
1866, Doncaster, Yorks.
Ann Elizabeth
Shaw, born 1867, Salford, Lancs.
Charles Edwin
Shaw, born 1875/76, Manchester
Gertrude Shaw,
born 1879, Chorlton, Manchester (twin)
Ethel Shaw, born
1879, Chorlton, Manchester (twin)
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Marriage:
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43-year-old
Hulme-resident William Briggs Shaw married 34-year-old Louise Amy
Hanesworth (1868/69, Bolton) on 29/08/1903, in West Derby, Liverpool
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Children:
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Thomas
Hanesworth Shaw, born 1905/06, Manchester
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Residence,
Occupation:
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07/04/1861 [census]:
(elusive, but presumably with parents in Hogsthorpe or Doncaster)
24/05/1863
[marriage register]: father (so presumably William) in Doncaster; father
described as a painter
02/04/1871
[census]: 62 Duke Street, Hulme, Manchester; father now a wheelwright
03/04/1881
[census]: 4 Blantyre Street, Hulme, Manchester; father still a wheelwright,
son William a tax collector
05/04/1891
[census]: 8 Blantyre Street, Hulme, Manchester; father a wheelwright, son
William a clerk
31/03/1901
[census]: (elusive)
29/08/1903
[marriage register]: Hulme
02/04/1911
[census]: William, wife, son & sister-in-law at 10 Osorry(?!) Street,
Moss Side, Manchester; William cash clerk
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Chess:
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Newspaper chess
references to “W. B. Shaw” are evident from 1884 to 1906, and
possibly before and/or after. He was associated with St Ann’s
Chess Club (1886, 1889), Manchester Social (1900), Piccadilly (1892, 1893),
Bridgewater (1899), Ardwick (1900), Central Manchester and Chess Clubs (all
in Manchester) for the purposes of inter-club matches. He was
secretary of Manchester Chess Club as at 1891. He played in the 1893
North of England v South match, and Yorkshire v Lancashire county
matches of 1898,
1899, 1900, 1902, 1904, and 1906.
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Notes:
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Identification
of this person as the chess-player is based on there being only two people
of an appropriate age answering to “W. B. Shaw” in the 1891
census in the Manchester area, of whom the labourer can be discounted as
highly unlikely to be secretary of the Manchester Chess Club, thus leaving
this one. An explicit chess link, like address as secretary, is
difficult to find.
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Edmund Spencer
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Birth:
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18/06/1876,
Steeple Aston, Oxon., about 13 miles north of Oxford; reg. Q3 1876,
Woodstock, Oxon.
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Death:
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04/01/1936, at
the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool [probate index], due to
“septic poisoning” [1]
Probate to Margaret Spencer and Hannah Spencer, spinsters. He left
£4,126 16s 7d.
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Parents:
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Abraham Spencer
(1845/46, Newchurch-in-Rossendale, Lancs.), Hannah Spencer (1847/48,
Steeple Aston, Oxon.)
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Siblings:
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Mary Spencer
(born 1877/78, Steeple Aston, Oxon.)
Margaret Spencer
(born 1879/80, Steeple Aston)
Hannah Spencer
(born 1881/82, Steeple Aston)
William Spencer
(born 1884/85, Steeple Aston)
George Spencer
(born 1886/87, Steeple Aston)
James H Spencer
(born 1893/94, Haslinden, Lancs.)
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Marriage:
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Children:
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Residence,
Occupation:
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03/04/1881:
North Street, Steeple Aston, Oxon.; scholar (father was curate of Steeple
Aston)
05/04/1891: The Vicarage,
Crawshaw Booth (2 miles N of Rawtenstall; 5 miles S of Burnley), Lancs.;
(father was vicar of Goodshaw, the locality around Crawshaw Booth)
31/03/1901: The
Vicarage, Haslingden, Lancs. (2 miles W of Rawtenstall, 4 miles SE of
Accrington); banker’s clerk (father still clergyman)
02/04/1911: 170
Bedford Street South, Liverpool, bank clerk, in lodgings
27/05/1918: 32
Verulam Street, Liverpool (POW records)
14/12/1921: 32
Verulam Street, Liverpool (army records)
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War:
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Was taken as a
prisoner of war at Roucy, France, on 27/05/1918, when his rank was given as
corporal, and was repatriated in 1919 [2]. He was discharged from the
army on 14/12/1921.
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Chess:
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Member of
Manchester Chess Club from 1900 or before. Secretary & treasurer
of NCCU for some years [1], up to his
death. Played in the British Championships of 1924 (scoring 4½
points), 1925 (finishing third on 7½ out of 11), 1928 (scoring 6
points), 1931 (finishing fourth on 6½) and 1935 (scoring 4½
points) [1]. In the 1927
international team tournament in London he played for the British Empire
team [1]. An Edmund Spencer Trophy
was instituted in recognition and commemoration of his work for the NCCU.
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Ref.
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[1]
Yorkshire Telegraph & Star of 18/01/1936
[2] The
Chess Amateur, March 1919, p. 161
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