Chess Playing Butchers
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:40 pm
I note that John Saunders doesn't provide first names for CG Butcher, who played in the 1936 British Championship.
There were several chess playing Butchers in the Birmingham and Wolverhampton areas.
F Butcher played in a Birmingham tournament in 1926 where Alekhine and Znosko-Borovsky took on four local players.
The aforementioned CG Butcher was prominent in Birmingham chess circles in the 1930s.
Alf J Butcher was champion of Wolverhampton several times before WW2 and played long enough to defeat the young Tony Miles.
In 1900 twin sons, Alfred Joseph and George Cecil were born to Francis and Annie Butcher. Francis was a silversmith and goldsmith living in King's Norton, Worcestershire, now a suburb of Birmingham.
By 1911 Alfred and Cecil (as he was by now known) were boarding with a private schoolmaster, Thomas Rylands Parton, and his family. The Partons had two sons, the older of whom, Vernon, became famous as the inventor of Alice Chess and many other variants. To the best of my knowledge they were not related to Dolly.
So it seems a reasonable guess that some or all of the chess playing Butchers were from this family. But does anyone know for certain?
There were several chess playing Butchers in the Birmingham and Wolverhampton areas.
F Butcher played in a Birmingham tournament in 1926 where Alekhine and Znosko-Borovsky took on four local players.
The aforementioned CG Butcher was prominent in Birmingham chess circles in the 1930s.
Alf J Butcher was champion of Wolverhampton several times before WW2 and played long enough to defeat the young Tony Miles.
In 1900 twin sons, Alfred Joseph and George Cecil were born to Francis and Annie Butcher. Francis was a silversmith and goldsmith living in King's Norton, Worcestershire, now a suburb of Birmingham.
By 1911 Alfred and Cecil (as he was by now known) were boarding with a private schoolmaster, Thomas Rylands Parton, and his family. The Partons had two sons, the older of whom, Vernon, became famous as the inventor of Alice Chess and many other variants. To the best of my knowledge they were not related to Dolly.
So it seems a reasonable guess that some or all of the chess playing Butchers were from this family. But does anyone know for certain?
