Ratings 
  
  | Year       | 
  Rank   | 
   Edo    | 
  Dev.   | 
  Games  | 
 
  | 1865  | 
  213  | 
  2095 |  (140) |   2 | 
 
  | 1866  | 
  244  | 
  2080 |  (141) |   1 | 
 
  
Rating table notes
 
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| Biographical data |  
   | Name: Selkirk, George Hornsby   | 
 
   | Born:  | 
 
   | Died:  | 
 
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   | Notes: | 
 
   | The Chess Players' Quarterly Chronicle of Dec. 1870 (vol.2, p.188) has 'G.C. Selkirk'. The Canadian Illustrated News of 29 Nov. 1873 (p.346) has a game by a player named 'Selkirk'. Is this George Hornsby Selkirk? | 
 
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   | References | 
 
| Books |  
   |    Burt, Bristol Chess Club, page 11, ii | 
 
   |    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 175 | 
 
   |    Winter, Chess Facts and Fables, page 228 | 
 
| Periodicals |  
   |    [CIN], vol. 8, no. 22, 29 Nov. 1873, page 346 | 
 
   |    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 34, Oct. 1861, page 290 | 
 
   |    [CPC], vol. 4, no. 39, Mar. 1862, page 68 | 
 
   |    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 1, Feb. 1872, page 26 | 
 
   |    [CPM], vol. 2, no. 10, Oct. 1864, page 290 | 
 
   |    [CPM], vol. 1, no. 2, Feb. 1865, page 37 | 
 
   |    [CPM], vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1865, page 122 | 
 
   |    [CPM], vol. 1, no. 6, June 1865, page 182 | 
 
   |    [CPM], vol. 2, no. 4, Apr. 1866, page 119 | 
 
   |    [CPQC], vol. 1, no. 3, 18 July 1868, page 87 | 
 
   |    [CPQC], vol. 1, no. 8, Aug. 1869, page 244 | 
 
   |    [CPQC], vol. 2, no. 6, Dec. 1870, page 188 | 
 
   |    [Era], vol. 23, no. 1187, 23 June 1861, page 14 | 
 
   |    [Era], vol. 24, no. 1200, 22 Sep. 1861, page 15 | 
 
   |    [Era], vol. 26, no. 1355, 11 Sep. 1864, page 5 | 
 
   |    [Era], vol. 27, no. 1390, 14 May 1865, page 14 | 
 
   |    [WP], vol. 2, no. 1, May 1869, page 3 | 
 
| Web |  
   |    Burt, John.  [The Bristol Chess Club] | 
 
   |    Winter, Edward.  [The Knight Challenge] | 
 
 
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