Mary Rudge (6 February 1842 in Leominster – 22 November 1919) was an English chess master.
Mary Rudge lived out the final years of her life from 1913 to 1919 at the Home for the Incurrables, Streatham (she was moved to Guy's Hospital for her last weeks, aged 77)
The story of chess in Lambeth is contained in Martin Smith's brilliant talk on "Militant Activity, in Lambeth and Beyond" bit.ly/3lHhBLe