biography
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Jones, Henry
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pseudonym Cavendish
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1831–99)
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| biography:
| Physician and writer, born in London, UK. He studied at King's College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, practised as a surgeon (1852–69), and began writing about whist, publishing Principles of Whist (1862), and became whist editor of The Field magazine (1862). He wrote manuals on many other games, and helped found the All-England Croquet Club (1870). His pseudonym derives from the name of the first whist club he went to in London. |
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