Edith Holloway
Edith Martha Holloway was a volunteer nurse in Serbia during World War I and a British chess player. She was the daughter of sculptor John Denton Crittenden, who exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Winner of the first post-World War I British Women's Championship in 1919, she was in the prize list in several subsequent contests, taking the title for a second time in 1936 at the age of sixty-eight.
She played for England in the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924, her individual statistics being +2 −9 =2. Holloway was the first woman to play in an Olympiad, and the event was notable for her defeat of Peter Potemkine, a Russian Master who had settled in France.
She shared first place with Helene Cotton at Meran 1924. After the tournament three of the participants defeated three others in a double-round London vs. Vienna match.
Holloway also shared 4-5th place in the inaugural Women's World Chess Championship, held in London in 1927. She tied for 6–7th at Warsaw 1935, and 10-16th at Stockholm 1937. All of these events were won by Vera Menchik.