Hampton, William




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1859  136  2190 (105) 2
1860  139  2198 (101) 0
1861  148  2207 (98) 2
1862  132  2218 (98) 0
1863  120  2228 (97) 0
1864  121  2238 (96) 0
1865  108  2248 (94) 0
1866  109  2259 (91) 0
1867  103  2269 (87) 0
1868  99  2279 (81) 0
1869  93  2289 (74) 13

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Hampton, J. William  
   Also known as: J.W.
Born:
Died:
 
Notes:
Gillam has 'W.J. Hampton' at London 1868-1869, while Löwenthal and Medley have 'J.W. Hampton' (pp.2,4), 'W. Hampton' (pp.8,10,11) and 'W.J. Hampton' (p.13), and Löwenthal in the book of the 1862 Congress in London (p.xlvi) has 'W.I. Hampton'. Le Palamède (1836, p.227) and the Chess Player's Chronicle of 1844 (pp.156, 192) and 1849 (pp.264, 346) have 'W. Hampton' of the St. George's Club. Bell's Life in London (9 May 1841, p.3) has 'J. William Hampton' as a member of the St. George's Club. This seems to indicate that he went by his middle name, which might explain the alternation of initials. Or could there be two players, a 'J.W. Hampton' and a 'W.J. Hampton'? The Era of 10 Feb. 1861 (p.14) first lists one of the players in a handicap tournament only as 'J.W.' and then later refers to him as 'W. Hampton'. Saint-Elme-le-Duc, in Le Palamède (1845, p.30), and Kieseritzky, in La Régence (1851, p.205), refer to the brothers Hampton, so presumably Thomas Inglis Hampton and J. William Hampton were brothers. The year of birth is from Land and Water (15 Feb. 1873), sent to me by Tim Harding, but is suspect because this source also claims that William Hampton played against McDonnell in 1838, and we know that the latter died in 1835, at which time Hampton would have been 16 or 17 years old if he had been born in 1818.
 
References
Books
   Gillam, London, 1868/9, page 4
   Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 59, 63, 542
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 40
   Löwenthal and Medley, Chess Congress of 1862, page xlvi
   Löwenthal and Medley, Transactions of the BCA, 1868-1869, page 2
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 140
Periodicals
   [BLL], 9 May 1841, page 3
   [CPC], vol. 5, no. 5, May 1844, page 156
   [CPC], vol. 5, no. 6, June 1844, page 192
   [CPC], vol. 10, no. 9, Sep. 1849, page 264
   [CPC], vol. 10, no. 11, Nov. 1849, page 346
   [CPC], vol. 4, no. 6, June 1862, page 174
   [CPM], vol. 1, no. 5, May 1865, page 160
   [CPM], vol. 2, no. 4, Apr. 1866, page 110
   [CPM], vol. 3, no. 6, 1 June 1867, page 187
   [CPM], vol. 3, no. 8, 1 Aug. 1867, page 252
   [CPQC], vol. 1, no. 3, 18 July 1868, page 89
   [CPQC], vol. 1, no. 5, Feb. 1869, page 153
   [CPQC], vol. 2, no. 1, Feb. 1870, page 26
   [CW], vol. 1, no. 11, Jan. 1866, page 332
   [CW], vol. 2, no. 9, Nov. 1866, page 269
   [CW], vol. 4, no. 1, Apr. 1868, page 16
   [CW], vol. 4, no. 9, Dec. 1868, page 345
   [Era], vol. 20, no. 1040, 29 Aug. 1858, page 13
   [Era], vol. 23, no. 1168, 10 Feb. 1861, page 14
   [Era], vol. 24, no. 1232, 4 May 1862, page 14
   [Era], vol. 25, no. 1272, 8 Feb. 1863, page 6
   [Era], vol. 25, no. 1289, 7 June 1863, page 14
   [Era], vol. 26, no. 1335, 24 Apr. 1864, page 12
   [Era], vol. 27, no. 1385, 9 Apr. 1865, page 6
   [Era], vol. 28, no. 1433, 11 Mar. 1866, page 6
   [NYC], 26 July 1862
   [Pal], vol. 1, no. 7, 15 Sep. 1836, page 227
   [Pal], vol. 5, no. 1, 15 Jan. 1845, page 30
   [WP], vol. 1, no. 11, Feb. 1869, page 123
Web
   Mann, Steve.  [Yorkshire Chess History - 1868: YCA Meeting, build-up]

Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Wayte, W. - Hampton, J.W. 1859         (s)     1.5   -   0.5

Tournament data

London, England 1861 (1)     Saint George's Chess Club Handicap Tournament    
  Hampton, J.W. - Puller, A.G.     1 - 0          Hampton, J.W. gave odds of pawn and two moves
  Hampton, J.W. - Stewart, H.C.     0 - 1    
London, England 1869 (2)     Glowworm Prize Tournament    
  Hampton, J.W. - Haggard, H.D.     1 - 0    
  Hampton, J.W. - de Vere, C.V.     0 - 1    
London, England 1869 (3)     2nd British Chess Association Challenge Cup     3.5  /  10
London, England 1869 (4)     Mongredien Prize Tournament    
  Hampton, J.W. - Stewart, H.C.     1 - 0    
  Hampton, J.W. - MacDonnell, G.A.     0 - 1    


Player information updated: 22 Aug. 2023