Sir Theodore Henry Tylor (13 May 1900 – 23 October 1968)[1] was a lawyer and international level chess player, despite being nearly blind.
Tylor received First-class Honours in Jurisprudence in 1922 and was made an honorary scholar of Balliol College.
Called to the Bar by the Inner Temple with a certificate of honour, he was made a Fellow at Balliol College in 1928.
[3][2] He tied for first at the 1929–30 Hastings Premier Reserves alongside George Koltanowski ahead of Salo Flohr, Josef Rejfiř, Ludwig Rellstab, C.H.O'D.
[5] Mikhail Botvinnik noted that Tylor was using a tactile chess board that he incessantly fingered, as well as a device for counting the number of moves made.