King Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess Finish:none Ward wears a black cap

Ward wears a black cap

In the General Election of 1859 that followed the defeat of Disraeli's Reform Bill

probably at the 1936 Eifelrennen race at the Nurburgring

He failed to finish this race due to mechanical trouble

King Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess Finish:none Ward wears a black capKing Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess, Roskilde, Denmanrk, 1026 (1913). King Canute (c985 1035) was Viking King of England, Norway and Denmark. Ulf Jarl Torgilsson (c998 1026) married King Canute's sister and was appointed by Canute as the Earl of Denmark. They argued over a game of chess and Canute had Ulf murdered. Illustration from The Northmen in Britain by Eleanor Means Hull, published 1913. Private collection.