William Wayte
| William Wayte | |
|---|---|
| Full name | William Wayte |
| Country |
 England
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| Born |
4 September 1829 Calne, England |
| Died | 3 May 1898 (aged 68) London, England |
| Title | Master |
William Wayte (4 September 1829 – 3 May 1898) was a Church of England cleric and a British chess master. He was one of a group of ministers who played a prominent role in English chess in the late nineteenth century. Although little remembered today, according to Chessmetrics he was the number 9 player in the world at his peak in 1878.
Wayte was born in Calne, England on 4 September 1829. In 1850, he became a Craven Scholar and Brown's Medallist. In 1853, Wayte received his B.A. and became a deacon. He also became an assistant master at Eton College, a position he held until 1875. After becoming a priest in 1854 (Oxford), Wayte went on to receive his MA degree in 1856. In 1862, he took on the position of Select Preacher at the University of Cambridge.
In 1876, Wayte became a professor of Greek at University College London. He continued with his interest in Greek, editing the 5th edition of Plato's Protagoras (1888), the 2nd edition of Demosthenes' Androtion and Timocrates (1893), and the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
Wayte was one of a group of minsters who played a prominent role in early Victorian Era English chess. Other members of the group included George Alcock MacDonnell, John Owen, Charles Ranken, Edmund Thorold, and Arthur Skipworth. Mike Fox and Richard James remark that, "The English parsons were a talented mob; presumably quiet country parishes in the nineteenth century gave one the leisure needed to become a star. Most of them played under an alias so that their parishioners wouldn't know what they were up to on those long weekends in London." Wayte's alias was "W.H.C."
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