Arthur Percival Lacy Hulbert (later Lacy-Hulbert)

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From http://www.shropshirechess.org/History/1930s.htm
"Reverend A.P.Lacy-Hulbert
- (b.1877 Nice - d.1966 Ludlow)
County Secretary 1929-1953
This tireless worker, administrator, writer and player laid the foundations of Shropshire Chess as we know it. He was the son of Rev James Lacy Hulbert and was born at Nice where his father had secured a post in 1870 as a result of ill health. He gained a scholarship to Fettes in 1890 and gained a BA at Keble College Oxford in 1899 followed by an MA in 1904. He played chess for Oxford against Cambridge in 1898 and 1899 and is mentioned and pictured in the BCM of 1899 as playing on board 4 for the combined Oxford/Cambridge team in a cable match against the American Univerties represented by Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia. In this match he lost, as White, in a 52-move Petroff Defence played by L A Cooke of Yale: the whole game appears with annotations in the BCM.
After working for several years in Birmingham he was appointed vicar of Ashford Carbonel near Ludlow in 1927 and married Annie, daughter of William Edwards, in 1932. His daughter Margaret Jones still lives at Ashford Carbonel and she helped to get all this information through Tim Lacy-Hulbert of Meopham, Kent.
His long tenure of the post of SCA Secretary ran from 1929 to 1953 and he was highly active – organising congresses at Ludlow in 1935 and 1937 as well as writing a copious chess column in the Ludlow Standard for over 20 years. He won the Shropshire Championship three times but perhaps his most interesting result was a draw with Dr Arpad Vajda at Ramsgate in 1929. Vajda, Police Chief of Budapest, was a strong international master who had drawn with both Capablanca and Marshall at the tournament in his home city the previous year.
Interestingly, he had long-term connections with Shrewsbury. His great grandfather, Charles Hulbert, married Anna Wood of Shrewsbury in 1805. She was the daughter of Thomas Wood, founder of the Shrewsbury Chronicle. Charles actually published a history of the Town and the County of Salop and then an updated version of Philips’ History of Shrewsbury. He had previously set up a business named “Coleham Cotton Manufactory” which backed on to the river where present-day Coleham is in Shrewsbury – but this failed during the Napoleonic wars hence the move into printing and publishing.
It should be noted that AP was christened Arthur Percival Lacy Hulbert (no hyphen) but this was changed to “Lacy-Hulbert” in 1899 when his elder brother Charles got letters patent to make the change to preserve the Lacy name as that branch of the family had become extinct.
Lacy-Hulbert,R - Bonham,R [E60]
Midlands Individual Championship, 1934
This is a real example of how Lacy-Hulbert could play and he produces a model of how the aggressive Saemisch Variation should work against the King's Indian. The game against R.W.Bonham, a redoubtable Worcestershire player, was played in the 1934 Midlands Individual Championship.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be3 0–0 6.Bd3 e5 7.Ne2 Nc6 8.Nbc3 Nd7 9.d5 Nb4 10.Bb1 a5 11.a3 Na6 12.b4 b6 13.h4 h6 14.g4 Bb7 15.b5 Nac5 16.Ng3 Bc8 17.Ra2Kh7 18.Rg2 Nf6? 19.g5! Ng8 20.h5 hxg5 21.hxg6+ Kxg6 22.f4! Opening up lines to intensify the attack 22...Bh6 23.Qh5+ Kg7 24.fxg5 f6 25.g6 A neat touch to finish off a won game more quickly than by grabbing material. 25...f5 26.Bxh6+ 1–0 (D Everington) "