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McFarland seems to LIKE English chess masters. There was that brobdingnagian book about Burn, and another one about Blackburne.

No mention of my research is given so perhaps they used other sources.

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<We regret to record the death of William Henry Pollock, one of the most famous of modern English chess players, which occurred in this city yesterday morning. Mr Pollock was the son of Rev. William Pollock, who was formerly rector of St. Saviour's, Bath, and is now chaplain to the Bristol Blind Asylum. He was educated at Clifton College, under Dr. Percival, and was intended for the medical profession, but though he was a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, he practised but little. It was in 1878 that he first began to show signs of exceptional talent as a chess player. He joined the Bath Chess Club, which in those days was remarkably strong, and a year or two later he began to rise into prominence in chess circles. Eventually, in 1883, he went to London, and from that time he took rank as one of the leading players of the country. Curiously enough, he was not very successful as a prize-winner, for in the great tournaments in which he entered he gained distinction rather by the brilliancy of individual games than by the scoring of a successive number of victories over his opponents. He took part in matches all over England, and was especially popular in Ireland, where he played a large number of exhibition games. In 1889 he went to the United States to play the great New York tournament, and it was there that he accomplished his most famous achievement. The game in which he beat Weiss of Vienna, in this tournament, is generally considered to be one of the finest ever played. He resided in America for some years afterwards, living first at Baltimore, where he edited the chess column of the Baltimore News, a work he continued up to the present year. After residing at Albany for some time, he crossed the border, and went to live at Montreal. Last summer he came back to England to play in the Hastings tournament as the representative of Canada, but his health had already begun to fail, and he was not in his best form. He stayed in England until the commencement of the present year, and returned to Canada in February. During the summer his condition grew worse, and he decided to re-visit England again. Unfortunately, the vessel on which he was leaving Canada collided with another steamship in the St. Lawrence. The damage sustained by the steamer was serious, and it is believed that the shock so affected Mr Pollock, in his weak state of health, as to hasten his end. The steamer put back into dock, and a week elapsed before he was able to leave for England on another steamer. He reached this country just six weeks ago, and was taken straight to his father's house, 5, Berkeley Square, Clifton, where he has remained ever since. It was soon realised that he was in a rapid consumption, and he died yesterday morning, being in his 38th year. Mr Pollock was an extremely good cricketer about fifteen years ago, and was one of the most valuable members of Bath Association team at that date. He was unmarried. His brother is the Rev. J. Pollock, vicar of St. Gabriel's, Swansea.>

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