Anthony, Edwyn




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1873  252  2092 (110) 6
1874  269  2084 (114) 0
1875  287  2075 (118) 0
1876  299  2066 (122) 1

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Anthony, Edwyn  
Born: 23 Aug. 1843
Died: 1 Jan. 1932
 
Notes:
The Chess Players' Quarterly Chronicle of Oct. 1869 (vol.1, p.278) and Feb. 1870 (vol.2, p.18) has 'E.A. Anthony'. Other sources, including Gaige's Chess Personalia, give his full name as 'Edwyn Anthony' with no middle initial. Harding has 'Evelyn Anthony' on p.223, but 'Edwyn Anthony' on pp.404 and 571. The Field of 3 Jun. 1876 has 'Edwin Anthony'.
 
References
Books
   Forster, Negele and Tischbierek, Emanuel Lasker, Vol.I, page 40
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 11
   Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 186
   Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 223, 404, 555, 571
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 178, 184, 201, 266, 273
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 197, 291, 294, 344
   Winter, Kings, Commoners and Knaves, page 313
Periodicals
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. 2, Apr. 1872, page 58
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. 3, June 1872, page 94
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. 9, June 1873, page 280
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. 10, Aug. 1873, page 307
   [CPQC], vol. 1, no. 9, Oct. 1869, page 278
   [Era], vol. 34, no. 1753, 28 Apr. 1872, page 2
   [Fld], 3 June 1876
   [ILN], vol. 56, no. 1597, 4 June 1870, page 595
   [ILN], vol. 57, no. 1610, 27 Aug. 1870, page 227
   [ILN], vol. 57, no. 1627, 17 Dec. 1870, page 627
   [ILN], vol. 60, no. 1701, 13 Apr. 1872, page 363
   [ILN], vol. 62, no. 1758, 10 May 1873, page 451
   [ILN], vol. 62, no. 1763, 14 June 1873, page 571
   [ISDN], vol. 2, no. 1, Feb. 1870, page 18
   [WP], vol. 2, no. 7, 1 Nov. 1869, page 103
Web
   Harding, Tim.  [The First Oxford-Cambridge University Match], page 5
   Saunders, John.  [Varsity Oxford-Cambridge Match: Pen Pictures of Players]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Obituaries], page 6

Tournament data

London, England 1873 (1)     1st Oxford - Cambridge University Match    
  Anthony, E. - Simon, R.M.     2 - 0    
Worcester, England 1873     Birmingham - Worcester Club Match    
  Anthony, E. - Avery, T.     2.5 - 0.5    
Birmingham 1873 (1)     Birmingham - Worcester Club Match    
  Anthony, E. - Freeman, J.     1.5 - 1.5    
Bristol 1873 (3)     4th Counties Chess Association Meeting - Section A     0  /  0
Birmingham 1876     Oxford University Club - Birmingham Club Match    
  Anthony, E. - Freeman, J.     0.5 - 0.5    


Player information updated: 5 Jan. 2023