OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15856, 30 August 1913, Page 10

OBITUARY

MR LEOPOLD HOFFER.

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LONDON, August 28. The death is announced of Mr Leopol Hoffer,.the eminent chess authority.

[ Mr. Leopold Heffer was.born and educated at Budapest, and lived in Yicnna • and Paris till 1870, and subsequently in London. Ho was chess editor of the Field, the Westminster Gazette, and formerly the-' Standard. Ho also edited the "Chess Monthly." ''Chess" in the Encyclopied.u Britannlca, Book of Games played in the London International Tournament, 1699, and he was present and reported almost all the im- ■ portant, international, chess events which anvc taken place ever since the grand chess event in Paris in 1867. He was founder and hon. secretary of the British Chess Association, and director of the Ostcn Chess Congress. His publications include "Ohcss" and "The Series of First-class Games."]

MR HICKORY WOOD. LONDON, August 28. The death of Mr Hickory Wood, pantomime librettist, is announced [Mr Hickory Wood was born in Manchester of Scotch parents, and Was educated there. He was apprenticed in a home-trade warehouse, and was for some time an insurance secretary. _ His publications include '■ Recitations—Comic and Otherwise," "Soliloquies,' 1 "Chronicles, of- Mr. Pottersby." "The Life of Dan Leno," pantomimes, songft, and musical pieces.]