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4 unusual facts about Francis Willughby


Francis Willoughby

Francis Willughby (1635–1672), English ornithologist and ichthyologist

Francis Willughby's Book of Games

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Post and Pair

And if Francis Willughby gives no rules for the game, Holme and Cotton describe it as a three-stake game almost identical to a variation of Brag called Three-card brag, or Three-stake Brag.

Ruff and Honours

Francis Willughby speculated that Trump was an earlier simple trick-taking game without the ruff and honours.


Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton

He was born at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire, the second son of Francis Willughby, the famed mathematician and naturalist ( who preferred to be known by this aberrant spelling of the family name), and was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge.


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