Walter Frere
January 19, 1874 - April 24, 1943
February 16 1929
Daily News, New York, New York, Saturday, February 16, 1929
Walter Frere lamps that $100 Check
April 26 1943
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Monday, April 26, 1943
Walter Frere, Chess Expert, To Be Buried Tomorrow
Funeral services will be held in Fairchild's Chapel, 141-26 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, at 2 p.m. tomorrow for Walter Frere, a former registrar in the New York office of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, who died Saturday. Burial will be in Green-Wood Cemetery.
Mr. Frere was born in Brooklyn 69 years ago and had resided here the greater part of his life. He was one of the best-known amateur chess players in the city and in the 90s was considered one of the most skilled in America. He competed in numerous tournaments throughout the county and was a member of the Marshall Chess Club.
In 1905 he married Catherine Elizabeth Darken of Brooklyn. She died in 1939. Later Mr. Frere married Grace Stout, a former resident of this borough, in California. She died in 1941, several months after their marriage.
Surviving is a son, Walter Darken Frere of 36-20 Bowne St., Flushing, an engineer with the Western Electric Company, Bayonne.
April 29 1943
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, April 29, 1943
Half a century ago there appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle (Oct. 25, 1893) the score of a game from a tie match between this writer and Walter Frere then recognized as one of most promising young experts. He was the son of the late Thomas Frere who represented that club on the committee that arranged the first American Chess Congress in New York which gave the illustrious Paul Morphy of New Orleans to the world of international chess. As announced in the Eagle last Sunday Walter Frere died on Saturday in Flushing at the home of his son Walter Frere. Funeral services were held there Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. Hubert Stanley Wood of St. George's, officiating. Interment took place at Green-Wood Cemetery in a grave alongside of his father.
Modest and of a somewhat retiring disposition, Frere would have gone far in chess had he chosen to follow it up, as did Frank J. Marshall, a contemporary. Frere was content to retain his purely amateur standing and to enjoy the game in his own quiet way. He resided for some time in California and upon his return here had been for some time a member of the Marshall Chess Club. In the Frere family, Brooklyn chess circles had a link with a historic past.
