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HOYLE, EDMUND, or EDMOND (1672-1769)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 841 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOYLE, See also:EDMUND, or EDMOND (1672-1769)  , the first systematizer of the See also:laws of See also:whist, and author of a See also:book on See also:games, was See also:born in 1672 . His parentage and See also:place of See also:birth are unknown, and few details of his See also:life are recorded . For some See also:time he was See also:resident in See also:London, and partially supported himself by giving instruction in the See also:game of whist . For the use of his pupils he See also:drew up a See also:Short See also:Treatise on the game, which after circulating for some time in See also:manuscript was printed by him and entered at Stationers' See also:Hall in See also:November 1742 . The laws of See also:Hoyle continued to be regarded as authoritative until 1864, since which time they have been gradually superseded by the new rules adopted by the See also:Arlington and See also:Portland clubs in that See also:year (see WHIST) . He also published rules for various other games, and his book on games, which includes the Short Treatise, has passed into many See also:editions . The See also:weight of his authority is indicated by the phrase " according to Hoyle," which, doubtless first applied with reference to whist, has gained currency as a See also:general See also:proverb . Hoyle died in London on the 29th of See also:August 1769 .

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