Lumley, George


Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1859  235  1919 (121) 4
1860  248  1914 (119) 8

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Lumley, George  
   Also known as: Lumbley
Born: 1836
Died:
 
Notes:
CN 4006 gives age 15 in 1851 census and age 24 in 1861 census, so birth year must be 1836. Steve Mann gives 'c. 1836' for the birth year, and guesses that it might have been a 'George Lumley' baptized 22-05-1836.
 
References
Books
   Chess Association, Manchester 1857 Report, page 11
   Edgar, Liverpool Chess Club, page 21
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 105
Periodicals
   [BLL], 11 Sep. 1859, page 5
   [CPC], vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1859, page 124
   [CPC], vol. 1, no. 9, Sep. 1859, page 284
   [CPC], vol. 1, no. 12, Dec. 1859, page 380
   [CPC], vol. 2, no. 21, Sep. 1860, page 284
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. 28, Apr. 1861, page 110
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. 29, May 1861, page 138
   [DCA], 2 Mar. 1863
   [Era], vol. 19, no. 985, 9 Aug. 1857, page 5
   [Era], vol. 21, no. 1089, 7 Aug. 1859, page 6
   [Era], vol. 21, no. 1093, 4 Sep. 1859, page 14
   [Era], vol. 21, no. 1095, 18 Sep. 1859, page 15
   [Era], vol. 22, no. 1144, 26 Aug. 1860, page 14
   [FLIN], 8 Oct. 1859
   [FLIN], 5 Nov. 1859
   [ILN], vol. 35, no. 999, 22 Oct. 1859, page 401
   [ILN], vol. 35, no. 1003, 19 Nov. 1859, page 491
   [NN], 26 Mar. 1859
   [NN], 14 Jan. 1860
   [NYC], 5 Sep. 1857
   [NYC], 12 Nov. 1859
   [ST], no. 1877, 10 Apr. 1859, page supp.3
   [ST], no. 1898, 4 Sep. 1859, page supp.2
Web
   Hindle, Owen.  [Early Norfolk and Norwich Chess Club History, p.2]
   Mann, Steve.  [Yorkshire Chess History - 1860: George Lumley in Yorkshire]
   Mann, Steve.  [Yorkshire Chess History - George Lumley]
   Winter, Edward.  [CN 3426. Blind nineteenth-century prodigy]
   Winter, Edward.  [CN 3443. Blind nineteenth-century prodigy]
   Winter, Edward.  [CN 4006. Lumley]

Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Rainger, F.G. - Lumley, G. 1859         (c)     2   -   2
Fraser, G.B. - Lumley, G. 1860         (f)     7.5   -   0.5


Player information updated: 15 Jan. 2020