Edo Ratings, Hampton, J.W.

Hampton, William

Ratings

Year	Rank	Edo	Dev.	Games
1859	137	2191	(105)	2
1860	141	2200	(101)	0
1861	150	2208	(98)	2
1862	142	2219	(98)	0
1863	131	2229	(97)	0
1864	132	2239	(96)	0
1865	119	2250	(94)	0
1866	116	2260	(91)	0
1867	112	2270	(87)	0
1868	104	2280	(81)	0
1869	97	2291	(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