# Agnes Stevenson

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{{Short description|British chess player (1873–1935)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2019}}
{{distinguish|Angus Stevenson}}
{{Infobox chess player
|name = Agnes Lawson-Stevenson
|image      =Agnes Stevenson 1931.jpg 
|caption    =Stevenson in 1931 
|birthname  = Agnes Bradley Lawson
|nickname   = 
|country    = Britain
|birth_date  = c. 23 November 1873
|birth_place = Stranton, [Hartlepool](/source/Hartlepool), England
|death_date  = {{death date and age|1935|8|20|1873|11|23|df=y}}
|death_place = [Poznań](/source/Pozna%C5%84), [Poland](/source/Poland)
|title      = 
|worldchampion = 
|womensworldchampion = 
|rating     = 
|peakrating = 
|ranking     = 
|peakranking = 
}}
'''Agnes Lawson-Stevenson''' (born Agnes Bradley Lawson, November 1873<ref>{{cite web|author=Edward Winter|url=http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter92.html#7565._Agnes_Stevenson_C.N.|title=Agnes Stevenson|date=April 2010}}</ref> – 20 August 1935)<ref>{{citation
 | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
 | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
 | publisher=McFarland
 | isbn=0-7864-2353-6
 | pages=407–8}}</ref> was a British [chess](/source/chess) player.  She was four-time [British Ladies' Champion](/source/British_Chess_Championship) (1920, 1925, 1926, 1930), and married to Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson, home news editor of the ''[British Chess Magazine](/source/British_Chess_Magazine)'', secretary of the Southern Counties Chess Union and match captain of the Kent County Chess Association.<ref>Times [London, England] 21 August 1935, page 10.</ref>

She took 3rd at Meran 1924 (unofficial European women's championship, Helene Cotton and [Edith Holloway](/source/Edith_Holloway) won). After the tournament three of the participants (Holloway, Cotton and Stevenson) defeated three others ([Paula Wolf-Kalmar](/source/Paula_Wolf-Kalmar), Gülich and Pohlner) in a double-round London vs. Vienna match.<ref>[http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter31.html Unofficial European women's champion]</ref>

She was thrice the [Women's World Championship](/source/Women's_World_Chess_Championship) Challenger. She tied for 9-11th at [London 1927](/source/Women's_World_Chess_Championship_1927), took 5th at Hamburg 1930, and took 3rd at Prague 1931.<ref>[http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/11%20Ajedrez%20Femenino/Palmares/Cto_Mundo.htm Campeonato Mundo femenino<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 
On the way to play in the [1935 Women's World Championship](/source/Women's_World_Chess_Championship_1935), she left the aircraft in [Poznań](/source/Pozna%C5%84) to complete a passport check. She returned to the aircraft from the front and ran into the propeller and was killed.<ref>[http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/arch30.htm Britbase Chess Archive]</ref><ref>Times [London, England] 21 August 1935, page 10.</ref>

Her husband was remarried in 1937 to Women's World Chess Champion, [Vera Menchik](/source/Vera_Menchik), who was herself killed just a few years later in 1944.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{citation
 | periodical=[British Chess Magazine](/source/British_Chess_Magazine)
 | volume=1935 | pages=393, 454–455}}

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File:AgnesStevensonClock.JPG|Agnes Stevenson Memorial Fund Clock
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Category:1935 deaths
Category:British female chess players
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Category:20th-century British women
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