CHESS BEQUEST OF £7400

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

CHESS BEQUEST OF £7400

•ENCOURAGING BOYS TO PLAY BREWER'S HANDSOME LEGACY Because he believed that chess had helped him a great deal at the beginning of his career, Colonel Sir William Thomas Dupree, Bart., a former Mayor of Portsmouth, who died last March, has left £7400 to be divided between Portsmouth and Brighton for the encouragement of chess among boys. Mr. A. E. Lowrv, secretary to the Mayor of Brighton, stated with reference to the gift, that just before he died Sir William told him: " Chess has helped me a great deal in mv early life, and for that reason I wish young men to take it up moro seriously." Sir William, who was Mayor of Portsmouth in 1901, 1002, 1903, and 1910, and chairman of the Portsmouth and Brighton United Breweries, Limited, died at the age of 76. leaving £255,008. with net personalty £218.626. He had allocated the sum of £IO,OOO for the organisation of chess tournaments. but Mr. W. A. Barron, headmaster of Brighton and Hove Grammar School, one of the trustees, of the fund, explained that the amount expected to be left after payment of legacy duties, would be £3700 for each of the towns. " The bequest was made only a short time before Sir William's death," Mr. Barron added. " Sir Willam stipulated that an annual chess tournament should be organised in each town among young men under the age of 21. " The first prize of not less than £IOO, is to be administered by the trustees at their discretion for the educational benefit of the winner. There are five or six other prizes to be similarly administered. We hope to begin the first tournament in Brighton tnis year."