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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright
- © Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
- ISBN
- 978-1-349-32662-4
- Pages
- 45 –85
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230307278_3
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[The politician Charles James Fox was an infamously prolific gambler. Horace Walpole reported, for example, that before the parliamentary debate on a new Marriage Bill in January 1772, Foxhad sat up playing hazard at Almack’s, from Tuesday evening 6th, till five in the afternoon of Wednesday 7th. An hour before, he had recovered —12,000 that he had lost, and by dinner, which was at five o’clock, he had ended losing —11,000. On Thursday he spoke in this debate, went to dinner at past eleven at night: from thence to White’s, where he drank till seven the next morning; thence to Almack’s, where he won —6,000; and between three and four in the afternoon he had set out for Newmarket. (Quoted in Lascelles 43)]
Published: Oct 28, 2015
Keywords: Eighteenth Century; Corporal Punishment; Chance Event; Mathematical Probability; Game Manual