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HOWARD STAUNTON (1810-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOWARD See also:STAUNTON (1810-1874)  , See also:English Shakespearian See also:scholar and writer on See also:chess, supposed to have been a natural son of See also:Frederic See also:Howard, fifth See also:earl of See also:Carlisle, was See also:born in rho . He is said to have studied at See also:Oxford, but if so, he never matriculated . Settling in See also:London he soon spent the small See also:fortune See also:left him under his See also:father's will and began to make his living by journalism . He gave much of his See also:attention to the study of the English dramatists of the Elizabethan See also:age . As a Shakespearian commentator he showed the qualities of acuteness and caution which made him excel in chess . He possessed, moreover, a thorough mastery of the literature of the See also:period, shown in his papers in the See also:Athenaeum on " Unsuspected Corruptions of See also:Shakespeare's See also:text," begun in See also:October 1872 . These formed See also:part of the materials which he intended to utilize in a proposed edition of Shakespeare which never became an accomplished fact . In 1864 he published a facsimile of the Shakespeare See also:folio of 1623, and a facsimile edition of Much See also:Ado about Nothing, photolithographed from the See also:quarto of 1600 . He died in Lon-See also:don on the 22nd of See also:June 1874 . See also:Staunton's services to chess literature were very See also:great, and the See also:game in See also:England owes much of its later popularity to him, while for See also:thirty years he was the best player in England, perhaps in the See also:world . For his important See also:works on the subject see CHESS .

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