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Biographical notes on Lancashire players who played against Yorkshire, or participated in events in Yorkshire.

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Dr John Hepworth Shaw

Birth:

1865/66, Liverpool; reg. Q1 1866, Liverpool

Death:

1838; reg. Q3 1938, Liverpool South, aged 72

Parents:

John Shaw (born 1817/18, South Kirkby, Yorks.; pharmaceutical chemist), Malina Shaw (1829/30, Pontefract, Yorks.)

Siblings:

Lucy Beatrice Malina Shaw (born 1864/65, Liverpool)

Marriage:

still single on 02/04/1911

Residence,

Occupation:

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

Chess:

Member of Liverpool Chess Club

 

 

William Briggs Shaw

Birth:

1859, Hogsthorpe, Lincs

Death:

1921 Chorlton district

Parents:

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.

Half-Siblings:

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)

Marriage:

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

Children:

Thomas Hanesworth Shaw, born 1905/06, Manchester

Residence,

Occupation:

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

Chess:

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.

Notes:

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.

 

 

Frederick Eglin Spedding – see Frederick Eglin Spedding (own page)

 

 

Edmund Spencer

Birth:

18/06/1876, Steeple Aston, Oxon., about 13 miles north of Oxford; reg. Q3 1876, Woodstock, Oxon.

Death:

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.

Parents:

Abraham Spencer (1845/46, Newchurch-in-Rossendale, Lancs.), Hannah Spencer (1847/48, Steeple Aston, Oxon.)

Siblings:

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.)

Marriage:

 

Children:

 

Residence,

Occupation:

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)

War:

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.

Chess:

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.

Ref.

[1]  Yorkshire Telegraph & Star of 18/01/1936

[2]  The Chess Amateur, March 1919, p. 161

 

 

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06/12/2013

Stephen John Mann

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06/12/2013