Bell's Life 24 June 1838:

<The Westminster Chess Club. This club is now progressing satisfactorily and regaining many of the members who frequented that institution from its origin. The present locale is Hill?s Hotel, Spring-gardens. During the last week considerable interest has been excited there, by a long match played between the club?s secretary, Mr. Staunton, and Captain Evans, the celebrated inventor of that brilliant chess-opening, which, scorning to walk in the dry-as-dust paths of the ancients, carves out a way to the picturesque of its own. The more Captain Evans' opening is tested by practice, the better does it appear to be. It has long been the fashionable debut among the chessplayers of our metropolis, and is now in constant use in the Parisian circle. It is to be regretted the two chess clubs, the London and Westminster, do not come to some arrangement by which gentlemen, bona-fide members of the one, should be entitled, as matter of right, to the entree at the other. There may exist persons, doubtless, whose delicacy is sufficiently elastic to allow them to waive forms, and avail themselves of the use of a room to which they pay not: but the majority, we hope, have a conscience made of stuff less stretching. To many a double subscription is felt impossible to be afforded, and no man, with any pretensions to the character of gentleman, can visit a club frequently, not being member. Of course we apply this only to residents in London. >

Bell's Life 16 December 1838:

<Benjamin Smith, Esq., M.P. for Norwich, continues as President of the Club, and Mr. Staunton, a very brilliant Chess player, is constituted Honorary Secretary. We shall be happy to give further details when the new rooms are open, and, in the interim, applicants for admission may address the Secretary, Hill?s Hotel, Spring-garden. ...... As the Westminster Chess Club has been formally dissolved and reformed, it starts with entirely new rules.>

Bell's Life 8 March 1840:

<1836

Sept - Subscriber [Staunton H.] to Walker's book on McDonnell - alongside Charles Stanton

1837

Westminster club leaves Bedford St and temporarily relocates to Grand Cigar Divan in Strand, before closing end of September

Dec - Secretary [Mr. Staunton] of Westminster club (Hill's Hotel, Spring Gardens) (BL, 1837.12.31, p.2)

1838

Match with Alexandre (Or late 1837?)

Jun - Ongoing m [Mr. Staunton] with Captain Evans (BL, 1838.06.24, p.3)

Dec - New premises for (new?) Westminster club ready for relocation; Hon. Secretary [Mr. Staunton], still at Hill's Hotel (BL, 1838.12.16, p.3)

1839

Jan - Westminster club re-opens at 26 Charles St (BL, 1839.01.06, p.2)

Apr - 'That gentleman is generally at his post by noon.' (BL, 1839.04.28, p.2)

May - [Staunton] one of club's 'elite' players (BL, 1839.05.26, p.2)

[Howard Staunton] living (?) at 26 Charles St (Robson's London Directory, 1840)

Nov - Club moves (supposedly for repairs to club chambers) to Trafalgar Hotel, Spring Gardens (BL, 1839.11.24, p.2)

Dec - Westminter club closes (BL, 1839.12.22, p.2)

1840

Correspondence games with Bristol CC, probably starting 1839 (BL, 1840.03.01, p.3)

Playing nightly at Gliddons, Kings St. (BL, 1840.03.08, p.4)

Correspondence m with Rev. Bolton

May-Dec - (New) Court Gazette column

Dec (?) - Match with Popert at London CC, George & Vulture Hotel, Cornhill

1841

Jan - First column in British Miscellany

Early 1841 Now regular at Goode's Chess Rooms, 39 Ludgate Hill

Apr (?) - Odds m with Zytogorski at Goode's

May - Re-launch of British Miscellany & Chess Player's Chronicle

Nov (?) Odds m with Brown

I see the Kings Arms in Stainton was built in 18th century, so it was there in 1810. Only abt. 5 km from Keswick there is an establishment today called White Horse. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to check the 1840 census of the area. What else can be done.

On the "country gentlemen" I find this from 3 Aug 2015 (it may mean nothing):

<Staunton had hired William Lewis as an analyst for his magazine. It may be that the Staunton joined Lewis' camp in that war of animosity between Lewis and Walker. Here is an excerpt from a letter-to-the-editor (it was anonymously signed "No Lawgiver," which mean it was likely written by Staunton himself, another of his modi operandi) putting down Walker:

Sept - Subscriber [Staunton H.] to Walker's book on McDonnell - alongside Charles Stanton>

<Through the indefatigable exertions of Mr Roberts, the manager of our theatre, the lovers of the drama in this town, enjoyed a rich treat on Monday evening last, in witnessing the transcendent powers of Mr Kean, the most celebrated actor of the present day. As Mr Kean never had been in Kendal before, and he being announced for one night only, as might have been expected, the theatre was crowded to excess. The play was the Merchant of Venice.>

<Back in London the chess column of the <Illustrated London News> of June 20 1874 carried a short notice to correspondents, "Our notices to correspondents are unavoidably deferred."

After his tramping in the Kent countryside, Staunton returned to "the whirl and worry of Babylon" and died at 29 Elgin Road on 22 June. Frances wrote to Halliwell the next day, mentioning briefly how she had found him:

Perhaps a little too summary, and flowery, assessment, given his treatment of Steinitz in his writings: