Edo Ratings, Hewitt, T.

Hewitt, Thomas

Ratings

Year	Rank	Edo	Dev.	Games
1870	291	2034	(129)	1
1871	300	2045	(125)	1
1872	302	2053	(124)	0
1873	297	2060	(122)	0
1874	296	2068	(120)	0
1875	303	2075	(118)	0
1876	290	2083	(116)	0
1877	273	2090	(112)	0
1878	279	2098	(109)	0
1879	261	2105	(105)	0
1880	268	2113	(100)	0
1881	287	2120	(94)	0
1882	284	2128	(88)	0
1883	303	2135	(80)	0
1884	313	2143	(70)	0
1885	306	2150	(57)	15
1886	337	2125	(59)	1
1887	370	2113	(58)	15
1888	397	2090	(70)	0
1889	428	2068	(79)	1
1890	470	2054	(88)	0
1891	495	2040	(95)	0
1892	553	2027	(102)	0
1893	603	2013	(107)	1

Rating table notes

Biographical data

Name: Hewitt, Thomas

Also known as: Sir Thomas Hewitt

Born: 1836

Died: 8 Jan. 1923

Notes:

Gaige gives birth between 9-01-1836 and 8-01-1837. There was a player named 'Hewitt' at a tournament of the 'Stamford Institution' (in London?) in 1856 (Illustrated London News, 16 Feb. 1856, p.187)? Also, a 'Hewett' who was in the Westminster Club in 1868 (Illustrated London News, 9 May 1868, p.475).

References

Books

Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 131

Forster, Amos Burn, page 961

Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 172

Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 67, 360

Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 61, 66, 315, 576

Harding, Steinitz in London, page 122, 125

Löwenthal and Medley, Transactions of the BCA, 1868-1869, page 2, 13

Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 145, 191, 195

Townsend, Notes on Staunton, page 141

Periodicals

[CPQC], vol. 1, no. 5, Feb. 1869, page 155

[CW], vol. 2, no. 5, July 1866, page 154

[CW], vol. 3, no. 1, Mar. 1867, page 27

[Era], vol. 29, no. 1494, 12 May 1867, page 14

[ILN], vol. 48, no. 1375, 16 June 1866, page 595

[ILN], vol. 50, no. 1426, 11 May 1867, page 482

[ILN], vol. 70, no. 1958, 20 Jan. 1877, page 71

[Str], vol. 4, no. 11, Sep. 1871, page 271

[WP], vol. 1, no. 4, July 1868, page 48

[WP], vol. 2, no. 10, 1 Feb. 1870, page 153

[WP], vol. 3, no. 28, 1 Aug. 1870, page 56

[WP], vol. 4, no. 3, 1 July 1871, page 47

Tournament data

London, England 1870 (1)     Westminster Club - City of London Club Match

  Hewitt, T. - Smith, T. (1)     0.5 - 0.5

London, England 1871 (7)     Westminster - City of London Club Match

  Hewitt, T. - Argall, H.K.     0.5 - 0.5

London, England 1885 (9)     British Chess Association Tournament     7 / 15

Paris 1886 (2)     British Chess Club - Paris Cercle des Echecs Match

  Hewitt, T. - Istel, I.     0 - 1

London, England 1887 (3)     British Chess Club Handicap     7 / 15      odds player in pawn and move class

London, England 1889 (4)     British Chess Club - Saint George's Club Match

  Hewitt, T. - Marett, C.     0 - 1

Paris 1893     British Chess Club - Paris Cercle des Echecs Match

  Hewitt, T. - Chaseray, C.E.     0 - 1