| Jul-04-06 | | baTALion: Who is this person? Has a very funny name, but no bio whatsoever. |
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| Jul-04-06 | | jamesmaskell: Anyone fear this could become another Odd Lie style page? hehehe...Maude lost to Tolstoy...theres a whole bunch of puns and such jokes around. Francis Maude is the current Conservative Party (UK) Chairman. Hes a loser, just like this Maude. I doubt its the same one though... |
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Jan-15-10
 | | HeMateMe: Lady Gadiva
Was a freedom rider,
She didn't care if
the WHOLE world looked
Joan of Arc,
with the lord to
guide her, she's a sister
who REALLY cooked.
When the country was
falling apart, Betsy Ross
got it ALL sewed up!
and then theres Maude
and then theres Maude,
ever lovin
ever laughing
tranquilizing,
right on Maude!!
I bet Norman Lear didn't know his housewife from Tuckahoe NY had a chess namesake. |
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Oct-30-22
 | | MissScarlett: The Era, November 20th 1864, p.6:
<Death of Mr George Maude. - We regret to announce the death of this gentleman, so well known in Chess circles. For some years past Mr Maude has been in indifferent health. About two years ago he went to Alexandria in the hope of receiving benefit from the milder climate; but, being compelled to return, sustained a relapse, and was again compelled to go abroad. He derived, however, little advantage, and died very shortly after his arrival in England. Mr Maude was an amateur player of considerable ability, and took a keen interest in the affairs of Chess. He played several matches with Mr Kolisch, when that gentleman was in London, and afterwards made a vigorous stand against him in Paris. Mr Maude was a gentleman of high accomplishments, and was much beloved by all who knew him for the excellent qualities of his heart.> |
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Oct-30-22
| | MissScarlett: The Sun, October 29th 1864, p.8:
<Deaths [...] Maude. - On the 28th inst., at Mornington-road, Regent's park, George Maude, Esq., aged 41.> Another notice in the <Bath Chronicle> of November 3rd, adds that he was the youngest brother of a <Mrs. Henry Dallaway>. The register for Nunhead cemetery gives the burial date as November 2nd and the home address as 13 Mornington Road (a street now split into Mornington Terrace and Clarkson Row). A good candidate is the George Maude, baptised on December 23rd 1823 in the parish of Camberwell, London, the son of John Milthorpe and Mary, of Peckham, born on July 19th. |
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Oct-30-22
| | MissScarlett: <A good candidate is the George Maude, baptised on December 23rd 1823 in the parish of Camberwell, London, the son of John Milthorpe and Mary, of Peckham, born on July 19th.> In the 1851 census, this is surely the George Maude, born in Peckham, living with his 70 year old mother, Mary, a widow, at 1 Bishop's Road in Paddington. His age is not clear, but it does look like 27. |
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