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Henry Young

Number of games in database: 6
Years covered: 1860 to 1865
Overall record: +1 -4 =1 (25.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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HENRY YOUNG
(born Mar-17-1818, died Jul-25-1880, 62 years old) United Kingdom

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Henry Thomas Young was born St. Marylebone, Middlesex (London) in 1818. He was a solicitor, and president (1876-77) of the Incorporated Law Society in London. A prominent member of the St. George's Chess Club and (later) St. James's Chess Club, he was a chess problem composer, publishing items in London newspapers from the 1850s and until his death in 1880.

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Last updated: 2022-10-30 14:18:06

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Lowenthal vs H Young  1-0171860Odds game000 Chess variants
2. H Young vs J Hannah 0-1361862B.C.A. Handicap tC42 Petrov Defense
3. H Young vs J Hannah 0-1381862B.C.A. Handicap tC42 Petrov Defense
4. H Young vs G Maude  0-1581862St. James CC - London CC mC85 Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation Doubly Deferred (DERLD)
5. Blackburne vs H Young ½-½241862Blindfold simul, 10bC41 Philidor Defense
6. H Young vs R Sidney 1-0151865London-DublinC55 Two Knights Defense
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-26-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: As noted by Phony B, this is <H. T. Young>, Esq., once a prominent member of the St. James's Chess Club in London. Young is not the best of search words, and in order to identify him, one more clue would be fine.
Jun-26-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: I found his full name, but but there are many of them. He composed chess problems, at least until 1880.

<CHESS. Problem No. 186, by Henry Thomas Young, Esq., of the St. George’s Chess Club.> (The Era, 15 Nov 1857, p. 14)

<St. James’s Chess Club. In the following game recently played, at the above club, Mr. Loewenthal gives the odds of the Queen’s Knight to Mr. Henry Thomas Young; - (Remove White’s Queen’s Knight.)> (The Era, 2 June 1861, p. 7)

Jun-27-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: There was a Fishmonger in London with the same name and of the same age. But I think I found the Esq.:

1818: Henry Thomas Young, born 17 March 1818 in Saint Mary-St Marylebone Road, St Marylebone, London, baptized 12 May 1818, Father: Wililam, mother: Louisa. (England, Select Births and Christenings)

1841 census, St Mary, St Marylebone Middlesex: Louisa Young, hd, 50, Louisa, 30, Emily, 20, <Henry, 20, Law.>

1844: <Attorneys to be admitted. Clerks' Name and Residence: Young, Henry Thomas, 16, Cumberland Street, Portman square. To whom articled, assigned, &c.: John Eldad Walters, Lincoln's Inn.> (The Legal Observer, 1944)

1851 census, 16 Cumberland Street, St Mary, St Marylebone Middlesex: Louisa Young, Head, Widow, 62, Fundholder (?), Emily, 34, <Henry T, 33, Practising Solc> (?), Ellen, 31

1857: <CHESS. Problem No. 186, by Henry Thomas Young, Esq., of the St. George’s Chess Club.> (The Era, 15 Nov 1857, p. 14) (the first H. T. Young problem I could find)

1860: Young, Henry Thomas, Esq. 9, New square, Lincoln’s inn, wc, and 59, Cumberland street, Bryanston square, w (London Royal Blue Book 1860)

1861 census, The Palace, Brighton Sussex: H. Thos. Young, Lodger, 43, b. in St. Marylebone Middlesex, Solicitor.

1862: Henry Thomas Young, married 9 Sep 1862 in Alverstoke, Hampshire to Charlotte Isabel Jenyns (England, Select Marriages)

1871 census, Eastbourne Sussex: Henry T. Young, 53, Head, born in Midx Marylebone, Solicitor, Charlotte I, Wife, 39, b. in Bottisham Cambridgeshire, Evelyn H, 5, Minna G, 4, Edward G, 3, Lionel G, 2, Walter C, 3 Months.

1880: <Problem No. 1888. By Henry Thomas Young. (diagram) White to play, and mate in three moves.> (Illustrated London News, 24 April 1880, p. 414)

1880: <YOUNG, Henry Thomas. 7 August. The Will of Henry Thomas Young formerly of 59 Great-Cumberland-place Hyde Park and of 9 Lincoln’s-Inn both in the County of Middlesex but late of Camden Hill near Staplehurst in the County of Kent Solicitor who died 25 July 1880 at Camden Hill was proved at the Principal Registry by Charlotte Isabel Young of Camden Hill Widow the Relict the sole Executrix.> (England & Wales National Probate Calendar)

1880: <Problem No. 1913. By H. T. Young. (diagram) White to play, amd mate in two moves.> (Illustrated London News, 16 Oct 1880, p. 390) (this is the last H. T. Young problem I could find)

1881 census, Camden Hill House, Frittenden Kent: Isabel Young, Head, Widow, 49, Indepent Lady, Mina, 14, Scholar, Mansell G, 7, Scholar.

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