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Arthur Pinkerton Cup

Currently awarded to the winner of the Ulster Junior Championship.

The Arthur Pinkerton Cup is named after a former Secretary of the Ulster Chess Union. It was first presented in 1980, but the Ulster Junior Championship itself dates back to 1936.

The present Cup is actually not the 1980 original. When Hannah Lowry-O'Reilly won the Championship in 2003, she made arrangements for the Cup to be engraved. However the engraver lost the Cup (though curiously not the base) and agreed to provide a replacement by making use of a sketch of the original Cup, prepared by UCU Trophy Officer, Geoff Hindley.


Ulster Junior Championship Winners:
1936 - J. D. PEEBLES
1937 - J. HODGKINSON
1938 - R. D. BURTON
1939 - J. WALKER
1940 - R. D. BURTON
1941-1946 - NO COMPETITION
1947 - W. SAUNDERS
1948 - J. HILL
1949 - T. HALL
1950 - J. KEENAN
1951 - J. ORR
1952 - D. TICE
1953 - E. HALL
1954 - S. H. JOHNSTON
1955 - J. McCAUSLAND
1956 - T. ALCORN
1957 - T. ALCORN
1958 - C. N. GLASS
1959 - F. GREEN
1960 - D. KERR
1961 - E. WHITESIDE
1962 - T. CAMPBELL
1963 - L. GRAHAM
1964 - C. McKIBBIN
1965 - N. LOGAN
1966 - R. McCAUGHEY
1967 - P. O'KANE
1968 - M. A. J. MATTHEWS
1969 - M. COLEMAN
1970 - R. J. WHITE
1971 - R. KINKEAD
1972 - D. BLAIR
1973 - G. McCORMICK
1974 - E. McILHINNEY
1975 - S. McKAY
1976 - N. JUDGE
1977 - NO COMPETITION
1978 - S. SPENCE
1979 - ????
1980 - N. CARTON
1981 - R.GEDDIS & M. STONE
1982 - K. O'MAHONY
1983 - S. CAMPBELL
1984 - J. SLOANE
1985 - L. REID
1986 - M. GIVEN
1987 - S. WILLIAMS
1988 - N. McLAUGHLIN
1989 - D. ENDERBY
1990 - D. MALLAGHAN
1991 - J. BROWN
1992 - J. BLACK & J. O'HARA
1993 - G. LEWIS
1994 - M. WADDELL
1995 - C. SPACKMAN
1996 - Alex. BECKETT
1997 - D. TRUESDALE
1998 - L. ELLIOTT
1999 - M. KANE
2000 - W. STOREY
2001 - Alex. BECKETT
2002 - D. COLLINS, C. LEITCH, B. McGRATH & D. TRUESDALE
2003 - H. LOWRY-O'REILLY
2004 - S. McCONAGHY & R. PROCTOR
2005 - A. BURNS & L. McMULLEN
2006 - NO COMPETITION
2007 - J. MONAGHAN
2008 - Alex. BECKETT
2009 - C. MURPHY
2010 - M. ALLEN
2011 - G. JACKSON

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