biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1672–1769)
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| biography:
| Writer on card games, called ‘the father of whist’, who lived in London, UK. His popular Short Treatise on Whist (1742) ran into many editions, and was ultimately incorporated with his manuals on backgammon, brag, quadrille, piquet, and chess into an omnibus volume (1748). |
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