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Henry Jones, universalmente conosciuto come "Cavendish", nacque a Londra il 2 novembre del 1831 e fu un chirurgo, uno scrittore ed uno dei giganti del Whist.
Cavendish studiò al King's College & Bartholomew's Hospital dove prestò la sua opera di chirurgo per oltre 16 anni ripercorrendo le orme del padre che, come lui, era medico ed amante del Whist.
Nel campo del Whist fece parte della famosa Triade (con James Clay e William Pole) che imperò nell'800 ed i suoi "Principles of Whist" pubblicati nel 1862 costituirono la Bibbia per i giocatori del suo tempo.
Scrisse molti altri manuali per diversi altri giochi di carte in voga nell'ottocento britannico, ma, anche per altri quali il biliardo, il tennis ed il croquet.
Il suo pseudonimo deriva dal primo Whist Club che sorse a Paddington in Cavendish Square, dove si spense il 10 febbraio del 1899.
Henry Jones, byname
Cavendish (b.
Nov. 2, 1831, London, Eng.—d. Feb. 10, 1899, London
Jones was educated at King’s College School (1842–48) and studied at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
He practiced as a surgeon from 1852 to 1869. Jones learned whist from his father, who was an avid player at London’s Portland Club and coauthor of The Laws of Short Whist.
The younger Jones’s importance lay in his ability to codify and comment upon the rules. He published Principles of Whist (1862; later titled Laws and Principles, 11th ed., 1886).
He became whist editor of The Field magazine (1862). He also wrote manuals on croquet (1869); bezique, écarté, and euchre (all 1870); cribbage (1873); vingt-et-un (1874); lawn tennis and badminton (both 1876); chess and backgammon (both 1878); and patience (1890).
In 1870 he helped found the All-England Croquet Club, and in 1888 he contributed articles on whist and other games to the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1889).
Jones visited the United States in 1893 and was honored by whist clubs.
His pseudonym derived from the name of the first whist club to which he was admitted in London’s Cavendish Square.
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