http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexan...

http://www.thepeerage.com/p24048.ht...

<He had only daughters and is said to have declined the offer a special remainder that would have allowed the title to descend through his daughter to his grandson, stating that "if my grandson want the title he should earn it".>

Pity, because this would have made Lionel, as the eldest grandson, a Baron, so he would have been Lord Lionel. In turn, that would have rendered Dr. Jonathan Penrose as The Honorable (Dr.) Jonathan Penrose.

I think it should read 'chess problemist'. Seems he specialised in two-movers.

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White to mate in 2.

Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, October 20th, 1928, p,10:

<The one above is a "changed mate" problem, which won first prize in a "London Observer" tourney some years ago. This kind of problem is the most modern - not counting the "Fairy Problems," which do not comply with the rules of the game. If we remember rightly, changed mates were not known before about 1910. Many noted composers have not tried to make any, or have failed to produce any good enough for publication. To produce a "change mate" first make a "block" problem — "a waiting move" problem — with, as usual in "blocks," a mate set for every move that Black can make. (If Black moved first, then White would mate in one move. Many thousands of such were composed before 1900). And there so arrange things that the keymove will destroy the possibility of these set mates, or of some of them, and will cause the substitution of other mates — sometimes with an additional mate. A clever idea very difficult to work out, except, perhaps, to a few with special aptitude for this kind of composition. The old stagers can't do it, and very few of the young ones.