Boden Samuel Standidge (04.04.1826 – 13.01.1882)
English player and columnist of the Field (1857-1872).
Best results: in a match, he beat Owen in match +7-3=2 in 1852 and was the second at Manchester 1857 and Bristol in 1861.
Morphy said: he was the best English player.
The author of A popular Introduction to the Study and Practice of Chess (1851).
Historical ELO: 2470.