Edo Ratings, Rimington Wilson, J.W.

Rimington Wilson, James

Ratings

Year	Rank	Edo	Dev.	Games
1862	243	2015	(144)	3

Rating table notes

Biographical data

Name: Rimington Wilson, James Wilson

Also known as: James Wilson Rimington

Born: 1 July 1822

Died: 25 Nov. 1877

Notes:

According to Steve Mann, although born as 'James Wilson Rimington', he legally changed his surname to 'Rimington Wilson' without a hyphen. The Illustrated London News of 15 July 1871 (p.43) has 'I.W. Rimington Wilson'. Löwenthal's book of the 1862 London Congress has 'G.W.R. Wilson'.

References

Books

Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 354

Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 340

Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 27, 40

Löwenthal and Medley, Chess Congress of 1862, page 173, 323

Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 140, 172

Townsend, Historical Notes on Players, page 18

Periodicals

[CLCM], vol. 1, no. 7, Aug. 1874, page 161

[CPC], vol. 4, no. 7, July 1862, page 199

[CPC], vol. 3, no. 3, June 1872, page 88

[CPC], vol. 4, no. 4, Aug. 1874, page 118

[CPM], vol. 2, no. 4, Apr. 1866, page 110

[CPM], vol. 3, no. 8, 1 Aug. 1867, page 252

[CPQC], vol. 1, no. 8, Aug. 1869, page 248

[CPQC], vol. 2, no. 4, Aug. 1870, page 121

[Era], vol. 24, no. 1241, 6 July 1862, page 5

[Era], vol. 25, no. 1287, 24 May 1863, page 5

[Era], vol. 26, no. 1349, 31 July 1864, page 5

[Era], vol. 33, no. 1714, 30 July 1871, page 7

[ILN], vol. 59, no. 1660, 15 July 1871, page 43

[ILN], vol. 59, no. 1682, 9 Dec. 1871, page 555

[ILN], vol. 71, no. 2004, 8 Dec. 1877, page 558

Web

Harding, Tim. [The World's Greatest Chess Library]

Mann, Steve. [Yorkshire Chess History - 1863: WYCA 8th Annual Meeting]

Mann, Steve. [Yorkshire Chess History - 1866: NYDCA, 2nd Redcar Meeting]

Mann, Steve. [Yorkshire Chess History - James Wilson Rimington Wilson]

Tournament data

London, England 1862 (4)     British Chess Association Congress - Handicap Tournament

  Rimington Wilson, J.W. - Heathcote, J.M.     2 - 0          Rimington Wilson, J.W. gave odds of the move

  Rimington Wilson, J.W. - Solomons, S.     1 - 2