Agnes Lawson-Stevenson (born Agnes Bradley Lawson, November 1873 – 20 August 1935) was a British

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player. She was four-time British Ladies' Champion (1920, 1925, 1926, 1930), and married to Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson, home news editor of the ''

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'', secretary of the Southern Counties Chess Union and match captain of the Kent County Chess Association. She took 3rd at Meran 1924 (unofficial European women's championship, Helene Cotton and

Edith Holloway Edith Martha Holloway (6 December 1867 – 8 May 1956) was a volunteer nurse in Serbia during World War I and a British chess player. She was the daughter of sculptor John Denton Crittenden (1834–1877), who exhibited at the Royal Academy. Win ...

won). After the tournament three of the participants (Holloway, Cotton and Stevenson) defeated three others ( Paula Wolf-Kalmar, Gülich and Pohlner) in a double-round London vs. Vienna match. She was thrice the

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Challenger. She tied for 9-11th at London 1927, took 5th at Hamburg 1930, and took 3rd at Prague 1931. On the way to play in the 1935 Women's World Championship, she left the aircraft in

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to complete a passport check. She returned to the aircraft from the front and ran into the propeller and was killed.Times ondon, England21 August 1935, page 10. Her husband was remarried in 1937 to Women's World Chess Champion,

Vera Menchik Vera Francevna Mencikova (, ''Vera Frantsevna Menchik''; ; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in England. She was the first and longest-reigning Women's World Chess Champ ...

, who was herself killed just a few years later in 1944.

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