Laurence Oliphant Pitblado

2 July 1865, Stirling - 11 March 1938, Stirling

Associated with Stirling Chess Club 

Mr Pitblado played on the Stirling team that lost the final of the 1937 Spens Cup.

From the Glasgow Herald of Saturday, March 19, 1938

Stirling CC have lost an old and valued member by the death on Friday of last week of L.O. Pitblado, a regular member of their team, and a keen enthusiast. Mr Pitblado was a retired mining engineer, and an authority on the antiquities and early history of Scotland.

The following book is shown as being authored by Mr Pitblado:

The Roman invasions: a saga of the Caledonian race, by Laurence O. Pitblado
Published in 1935, G. Allen & Unwin (London)

Other source:
Glasgow Herald, 12 March 1938, p 1.


Alan McGowan
Archivist/Historian, Chess Scotland

updated 13/5/2021