Edo Ratings, Hewitt, T.

Hewitt, Thomas

Ratings

Year	Rank	Edo	Dev.	Games
1870	267	2035	(129)	1
1871	267	2046	(125)	1
1872	275	2053	(124)	0
1873	270	2060	(123)	0
1874	279	2067	(121)	0
1875	285	2074	(118)	0
1876	274	2081	(116)	0
1877	254	2088	(113)	0
1878	250	2095	(109)	0
1879	245	2102	(105)	0
1880	253	2109	(100)	0
1881	270	2116	(94)	0
1882	269	2123	(88)	0
1883	294	2130	(80)	0
1884	306	2137	(70)	0
1885	300	2144	(57)	15
1886	332	2118	(59)	1
1887	352	2105	(58)	15
1888	382	2082	(70)	0
1889	411	2060	(79)	1
1890	455	2046	(88)	0
1891	487	2033	(95)	0
1892	534	2019	(102)	0
1893	576	2006	(108)	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

[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