User:J S Ayer/Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson

Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson (1878–1943) was an English chess player, administrator, and patron. He was Kent County champion in 1931. His first wife was Agnes (nee) Lawson, four times British Ladies' Champion. In 1935, selected to play for England in the Women's World Championship in Warsaw, she ran into an airplane's whirling propeller and was killed. In 1937 Stevenson married Vera Menchik.http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/arch30.htm

At the time of the Nottingham Tournament of 1936 (for which he helped raise money) he was the secretary of the BCF. http://www.doubleocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/notting.htm

He was secretary of the Southern Counties Chess Union, alone or in tandem with RM Fleming, from 1911 to 1939. From 1911 to 1915 he was also treasurer; from 1936 to 1937 he was also president. http://www.sccu.ndo.co.uk/oldoffic.htm