[ Edwyn Anthony, proprietor of the 'Hereford Times', author, inventor and chess player. ] Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Richard Harington, asking for his legal opinion on behalf of the Weights and Measures Committee of Herefordshire County Council.

Author: 
Edwyn Anthony (1843-1932), proprietor of the 'Hereford Times', author, inventor, mathematician and chess player [ Sir Richard Harington (1861-1931) of Whitbourne Court, Worcestershire ]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of Westood, Hereford. [ Received 25 June 1902. ]
£120.00
SKU: 19188

7pp., 12mo. On two bifoliums. In good condition. A long and detailed letter, asking, '[i]n accordance with a resolution of the Wts. & Measures Committee', for Harington's opinion on a point of law, in relation to the charging of fees by inspectors, with reference to 'the provisions of the Acts of 1878 and 1889' and the 'decision in Rex v. Roberts'. Towards the conclusion Anthony states: 'The Wts. & Measures Committee believe their practice of making no charge to be in accordance with the law; but, since what ought to be done in the case of verification only does not appear to be explicitly stated in the Acts, they are very desirous of having your most valuable opinion thereon'. He concludes by offering his 'respectful congratulations on the representative part you will take at the Coronation'. Anthony was the one-time chess editor for his father's 'Hereford Times' and later proprietor of that paper. He was the inventor of several improvements to the printing process, a member of London Mathematical Society, barrister-at-law, President of the Oxford Chess Club, author of books or pamphlets on cricket, billiards, whist and bridge, mathematics and coinage, as well as a friend and student of world chess champion William Steinitz. From the Harington family papers.