Edo Ratings, Hewitt, T.

Hewitt, Thomas

Ratings

Year	Rank	Edo	Dev.	Games
1870	294	2037	(129)	1
1871	304	2048	(125)	1
1872	303	2056	(124)	0
1873	298	2063	(122)	0
1874	299	2071	(120)	0
1875	305	2078	(118)	0
1876	293	2086	(116)	0
1877	274	2093	(112)	0
1878	281	2101	(109)	0
1879	263	2108	(105)	0
1880	270	2116	(100)	0
1881	290	2124	(94)	0
1882	287	2131	(88)	0
1883	304	2139	(80)	0
1884	318	2146	(70)	0
1885	308	2154	(57)	15
1886	344	2128	(59)	1
1887	376	2116	(58)	15
1888	409	2094	(70)	0
1889	442	2071	(79)	1
1890	477	2057	(88)	0
1891	497	2044	(95)	0
1892	558	2030	(102)	0
1893	613	2016	(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

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