C W Fallows

Gerard Killoran · Post by **Gerard Killoran** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:42 pm

I think the C W Fallows who played at BCF Chester 1934 was a Theosophist whose full name was Charles William Fallows.

Charles William Fallows
Calendar, University of Durham, 1922 - p604

C. W. Fallows
Board 2 Northumberland & Durham v Lancashire on 14/01/1933, at York

Mr. Charles W. Fallows, a member in Northumberland, England
Theosophical Forum - Volume 21 - Page 190

Am I right?

John Saunders · Post by **John Saunders** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:35 pm

Looks like a pretty good theory. I've had a look through old BCF and Union Yearbooks and found CW Fallows was match captain and (usually) top board for Northumberland from the early 1930s to the post-war period, with wins recorded against HE Atkins and RJ Broadbent, and a draw with Sultan Khan, in the early 1930s. In the 1946/47 BCF Yearbook he was listed as one of the Northumberland delegates to the NCCU, and the Hon.Sec. of the Merchant Venturers' Chess Club, with the address 21 Woodbine Avenue, Gosforth, Newcastle. He also won the 1947 Northumberland Championship. In the 1956/57 Yearbook he was still listed as the Northumberland match captain and association vice-president. In fact, he was still carrying out some of these functions into the 1970s, although Yearbooks sometimes take time to catch up with changes.

He was also a bridge player - I found a reference to him in 'The British Bridge World' for August 1957, with an address of Newcastle.

I found a quasi-census record for a Charles W Fallows who was an art teacher in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1939, born 9 June 1905. Later I found a Charles William Fallows dying in New Zealand in 1973 and listed as a retired teacher. These could be one and the same although the ages didn't quite tally.

Gerard Killoran · Post by **Gerard Killoran** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:13 pm

He was playing correspondence chess in 1957. Here's a famous scalp.

Gerard Killoran · Post by **Gerard Killoran** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 11:02 am

C W Fallows is credited in this 1934 Durham University thesis as 'Art Master at St. Cuthbert's Grammar School.'

http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10306/1/10306_7100.PDF

St. Cuthbert's Grammar School was in Newcastle.

John Saunders · Post by **John Saunders** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:43 pm

I'd say that was enough to confirm the man and his full name.

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