Comments on: Remembering Samuel Boden (04-v-1826 13-i-1882)

By: Remembering Cecil Valentine De Vere (14-ii-1846 09-ii-1875) - British Chess News

Remembering Cecil Valentine De Vere (14-ii-1846 09-ii-1875) - British Chess News — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:37:35 +0000

[…] and set out on a life of dissipation. In 1872 he took over the chess editorship of The Field from Boden, and held it for tow years. But his constitution was undermined. A kindly amateur named J. Clark […]

By: Tim Harding

Tim Harding — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:45:36 +0000

This image of Boden was first published in the September 1876 number of the Westminster Papers along with a text profile of him. It was unsigned but perhaps somebody knows who did the sketches for that magazine.
The statements about The Field quoted in this article are open to challenge.
The chess column in The Field was certainly conducted by Boden from its resumption on 24 April 1858 to the end of August 1869. It resumed in January 1870 when the numbering of problems and games was restarted at 1. So the extent of Boden’s involvement after that, if any, and the exact dates of De Vere’s editorship remains somewhat unclear.

By: John Clarke

John Clarke — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:26:53 +0000

Anyone know who drew the portrait at the head of this article? Something about the line-work suggests Phil May, but May would have been only 18 when Boden passed on.