Sep-01-03
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Apr-22-13
 | | Tabanus: Sources on Brodie in Chess Player's Chronicle (CPC): Vol. 12 (1851) pp. 218 & 282:
<Mr. Staunton drew against M. Brodie>*, and <Brodie, Alfred, Esq.> as subscriber to the tournament. (Most players were also subscribers. The list e. g. mentions Capt. Kennedy, E. S. Kennedy and a "Kennedy, H. H. Esq." which probably should be <B.> H. Kennedy = Benjamin Hall Kennedy from Shrewsbury (who did not play)). Esq. Alfred Brodie gave 5 pounds, which is quite a lot, and more than most others. *not the game, but drew from the ballot-box.
Vol. 15 (1854) p. 90:
<two members of the St. George's Chess Club, Mr. Brodie and myself>, and <I dare say if Mr. Brodie is in town, that he will send you an account of his and my interview with the President of the London Chess Club> Apart from a few other references to the player <Brodie> or <Mr. Brodie>. It is also stated that he entered the tournament as provisional competitor. On Alfred Brodie (1809-1857), here is a good place to start: http://www.historyofwomen.org/brodi.... It could be him. |
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Apr-26-13
| | Tabanus: London Gazette 1837 p. 2611:
<Adjourned.
Alfred Brodie, formerly of No. 89, Pall-mall, Saint James's, Middlesex, and of Eastbourne, Sussex, then of No. 41, Great Portland-street, afterwards of Euston-place, New-road, both in Middlesex aforesaid, and late of Pall-mall, Middlesex aforesaid, and of Hastings, Sussex aforesaid, Esq. (known at the last-mentioned place by the name Bathurst).> London Gazette Feb. 26, 1839
<To be sold by public auction, by Mr. Hammond, Auctioneer, Chancery-lane, at the Auction Mart, London, on Monday the 25th day of March next, by order of the assignees of Alfred Brodie, an insolvent; A contingent reversionary interest in one eleventh part of two sixteenth shares of the Times and Evening Mail Newspapers; and a like reversionary interest in one eleventh part of £444S 11s. 2d. £3 per Cent. Consols, and all accruing interests to the insolvent's estate on the above, subject to £2000 mortgage and interest. Also a contingent annuity of £lOO per annum, being well secured on funded property, for the life of the said Alfred Brodie, aged about 29, payable during his life, in the event of his surviving his wife, who is aged about 45.> She was 53, in March 1839. London Gazette, May 10, 1867:
(case reopened after his mother's death)
<A MEETING of the Creditors of Alfred Brodie, late of Pall Mall, St. James's, Middlesex, and of Eastbourne and Hastings, Sussex, Esq., known as Bathurst, deceased, an insolvent debtor, will be held at the office of the late Insolvent Debtors' Court, No. 5, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, on Saturday, the 25th day of May, 1867> |
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Apr-27-13
| | Tabanus: His mother's share in The Times was divided by 11 children - probably not to make a living. I wonder why he died so young? Probably the most telling is missing from the bio. Btw, his wife (who was 23 years older than him) left £45000 when she died 12 years later. |
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| Apr-28-13 | | IndigoViolet: <I wonder why he died so young? Probably the most telling is missing from the bio. Btw, his wife (who was 23 years older than him)> Would have been more telling if she'd been 23 years younger. His bio suggests he was one of those dilettante, slightly shonky Victorians who dabbled in business but lacked the head or hard work required to succeed. Many of the strongest amateurs in British chess of the time were clergymen, so that background might explain where he fostered his interest in the game. |
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| Jun-10-16 | | zanzibar: Here is a case where the subscriber list makes a valid connection between the player and the rest of the biographical data. Here is a comment by Staunton about Brodie's participation in the great 1851 tournament: <It is proper to mention that Mr. Brodie chivalrously entered the
lists as a provisional combatant, pending the arrival of Mr. Schumoff,
who was hourly expected from St. Petersburgh ; and although he was
unfortunate in being cast to play against so practised an antagonist, he
sustained his place gallantly, and was not ingloriously defeated.> TB G-9 p15/115 ff |
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| Jun-10-16 | | zanzibar: And also:
<* To save the assembled players from delay and inconvenience, Mr.
Kennedy, like Mr. Brodie, very handsomely volunteered his services, and
consented to enter as the locum tenens of Major Jaenisch, who had
engaged to be present at the outset, but was prevented.> TB G-10 p18/117 ff |
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Oct-23-18
 | | MissScarlett: <Esq. Alfred Brodie gave 5 pounds, which is quite a lot, and more than most others.> That was the requisite entrance fee to the main tournament. Staunton, Wyvill and the Kennedys subscribed additional amounts. |
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Oct-29-24
| | MissScarlett: The Globe, April 17th 1838, p.4:
<BRODIE v. BRODIE.
This was a suit for divorce, instituted by Mrs. Mary Ann Brodie against Mr. Alfred Brodie, her husband, for adultery. The parties were married in 1834, and the adultery was alleged to have been committed at Dover and Hastings in 1836. No opposition was offered, and the Court, without entering into particulars, simply pronounced for the separation.> It seems that Brodie was in debtors' prison at this time. |
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Oct-29-24
| | MissScarlett: Reynolds's Newspaper, May 13th 1855, p.16:
<BLOOMSBURY COUNTY COURT.SOME MORE FASHIONABLE DISCLOSURES. - FISHER V. ALFRED BRODIE, ESQ. - This was an action brought by Mrs. Fisher, a boarding-house keeper of 93, Sloane-street, against Mr. Alfred Brodie, of No. 11, Hanover-terrace, Regent's-park, a young gentleman of fashion, and a director of the Beacon Fire and Life Assurance Company. Mr. Leonard Gent appeared for the plaintiff, and in an able address eliminated [sic] the instances of the case, which will be better detailed by a short resume of the evidence. It is simply necessary to state that it was sought to recover 13l., the balance of 23l., a debt contracted by the defendant for the board and lodging of Miss Denman, a niece of the late Lord Denman. Mrs. Fisher (the plaintiff) examined by Mr. Gent. She stated that in the month of September last the defendant, Mr. Alfred Brodie, called upon her, and took apartments for Miss Denman, to whom he then stood, as she believed, in the relation of suitor; but the arrangement was, that Miss Denman was to have partial board. Having ascertained that Mr. Brodie was a gentleman well connected, and of considerable fortune, she had no difficulty about the matter, and consented to receive Miss Denman into her house. She had received through Miss Denman two cheques of the defendant's for 5l. each, and the balance now due was 13l. She applied to the defendant personally, by letter, and then to Miss Denman. Eventually she received a letter from the defendant, making an appointment to see her, and pay the balance. That appointment was not kept by Mr. Brodie, who had abruptly broken off his connexion with Miss Denman, and failing to obtain the money, she was driven to bring this action. Some conversation thereupon ensued between the learned judge and Mr. Gent, in the course of which his Honour intimated that as there was no engagement in writing, it must be proved that the payments which had been made by the defendant through Miss Denman had been made by him for that purpose. The learned counsel thanked His Honour for the intimation he had given him, and proceeded to call Miss Denman, a young lady of great beauty, whose appearance excited considerable sensation. She gave her evidence in a most lucid manner, and stated that during her intimacy with Mr. Alfred Brodie she had received on two distinct occasions cheques of 5l. each to pay Mrs. Fisher. She had immediately on their receipt paid them over to that lady. Mr. Alfred Brodie had taken these rooms for her. There was a balance of 18l. [sic] now due. Knew the handwriting of Mr. Brodie very well. Was quite sure the letter which had been referred to was in his handwriting. Upon this evidence the learned judge said he had no difficulty in finding a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. Gent applied for the costs, which were thereupon allowed.> |
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Oct-29-24
| | MissScarlett: I'm not 100% convinced that the last <Alfred Brodie> is our man, but I'll leave the case on file, nevertheless. |
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