Edo Ratings, Hewitt, T.

Hewitt, Thomas

Ratings

Year	Rank	Edo	Dev.	Games
1870	280	2036	(129)	1
1871	281	2047	(125)	1
1872	291	2054	(124)	0
1873	282	2061	(123)	0
1874	287	2068	(121)	0
1875	291	2075	(118)	0
1876	283	2082	(116)	0
1877	263	2089	(113)	0
1878	266	2096	(109)	0
1879	249	2103	(105)	0
1880	261	2110	(100)	0
1881	282	2117	(94)	0
1882	282	2124	(88)	0
1883	305	2131	(80)	0
1884	313	2138	(70)	0
1885	310	2145	(57)	15
1886	349	2119	(59)	1
1887	367	2106	(58)	15
1888	403	2084	(70)	0
1889	434	2061	(79)	1
1890	469	2048	(88)	0
1891	497	2034	(95)	0
1892	558	2021	(102)	0
1893	608	2007	(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

[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