Edo Ratings, Hewitt, T.

Hewitt, Thomas

Ratings

Year	Rank	Edo	Dev.	Games
1870	224	2057	(129)	1
1871	212	2067	(126)	1
1872	221	2074	(124)	0
1873	231	2081	(123)	0
1874	225	2087	(121)	0
1875	223	2094	(119)	0
1876	231	2100	(116)	0
1877	217	2107	(113)	0
1878	211	2113	(109)	0
1879	205	2120	(105)	0
1880	215	2127	(100)	0
1881	234	2133	(94)	0
1882	245	2140	(88)	0
1883	268	2146	(80)	0
1884	274	2153	(70)	0
1885	273	2159	(57)	15
1886	300	2133	(59)	1
1887	324	2121	(58)	15
1888	332	2098	(70)	0
1889	372	2074	(79)	1
1890	404	2060	(88)	0
1891	432	2046	(95)	0
1892	480	2033	(102)	0
1893	521	2019	(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

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, Feb. 1869, page 155

[CW], vol. 2, July 1866, page 154

[CW], vol. 3, Mar. 1867, page 27

[Era], vol. 29, 12 May 1867, page 14

[ILN], vol. 48, 16 June 1866, page 595

[ILN], vol. 50, 11 May 1867, page 482

[ILN], vol. 70, 20 Jan. 1877, page 71

[WP], vol. 1, July 1868, page 48

[WP], vol. 2, 1 Feb. 1870, page 153

[WP], vol. 3, 1 Aug. 1870, page 56

[WP], vol. 4, 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 (7)     British Chess Association Tournament     7 / 15

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

  Hewitt, T. - Istel (1)     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