Career
By 1870, he was one of the world"s ten best chess players, and the second-best English-born player, behind only Joseph Henry Blackburne. Wisker moved to London in 1866 to become a reporter for the City Press and befriended Howard Staunton. After this second victory, the British championship was not resumed until 1904.
Wisker edited chess columns for The Sporting Times and Land and Water.
From 1872 to 1876, Wisker was Secretary of the British Chess Association and co-editor of The Chess Player"s Chronicle. After learning that he had contracted tuberculosis, Wisker emigrated to Australia in the autumn of 1876 to try to regain his health.
In Australia, he wrote a chess column for the Australasian. In 1884, Wisker died from bronchitis and tuberculosis.