Edmund Spencer (chess player)


Edmund Spencer was an English chess player, Chess Olympiad team bronze medal winner.

Biography

Since 1900 Edmund Spencer was Manchester's chess club member. He was four times participated in British Chess Championship.
In this tournament he achieved the best results in 1925, when won 3rd place behind Henry Ernest Atkins and Frederick Yates, and in 1931, when he ranked in 4th place. In 1924, in Weston Edmund Spencer ranked 4th in International Chess tournament, which won Max Euwe.
Edmund Spencer played for England in the Chess Olympiad:
He was the secretary and cashier of the Northern Counties Chess Union of England. After Spencer's death, the Northern Counties Chess Union Boys' Championship main prize was named after him Edmund Spencer Trophy.