The inaugural meeting of the British Chess Problem Society took place on 10 August 1918 at St George's Restaurant, 37 Martin's Lane London WC at 3pm.
The meeting was chaired by the mathematical puzzle expert Henry Ernest Dudeney who was chairman of the Sussex Chess Problem Fraternity (SCPF).
[1] A short-lived British Chess Problem Journal was started by H. W. Butler in April 1919, but he had to resign due to ill health and G. W. Chandler took over as Secretary.
The doings of the BCPS were then mainly published in G. W. Chandler's chess column in the Hampshire Telegraph and Post until the founding of The Problemist in 1926.
[1] The Problemist was published with the subtitle "Proceedings of the British Chess Problem Society" until it was dropped in 1985.