Comins Mansfield
Comins Mansfield (14 June 1896 – 27 March 1984) was a chess problem composer. He gained the title International Grandmaster for chess compositions in 1972 and 94.33 points in the FIDE Album. Mansfield was born in the village of Witheridge, near Tiverton in Devon, England, the son of Herbert John Mansfield, who had long played correspondence chess for Devon. He attended Blundell's School in Tiverton and there began to take an interest in the game. He was inspired by a 1910 article in the British Chess Magazine that contained chess problems, and soon won first prize for a  two-mover published in a Plymouth newspaper. After leaving school he joined the tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills, which remained his employer for 45 years, firstly in Bristol and later in Glasgow. While still in Bristol, he won the Gloucestershire county chess championship every year from 1927 to 1934. In 1936 Alain C. White published "A Genius of the Two-Mover", which included 100 of the 300-or-so problems that Mansfield had composed over the past 20 years; and in 1944 White also published Mansfield's "Adventures in Composition – The Art of the Two Move Chess Problem