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The inventor of snooker
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Rolf Enger
May 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/2/95
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Reading about the history of snooker, I became somewhat confused. Is the Neville
Chamberlain who invented snooker the Neville Chamberlain who was british Prime Minister
just before World WAR II? As far as I'm concerned, he can't have been, because Chamberlain
the Prime Minister was born in 1869, and snooker was invented round 1875, when he was six
years old! But there may be some confusion about the years, somewhere. Can anyone tell me
who Sir Neville Chamberlain, the inventor of snooker, was?
Chamberlain who invented snooker the Neville Chamberlain who was british Prime Minister
just before World WAR II? As far as I'm concerned, he can't have been, because Chamberlain
the Prime Minister was born in 1869, and snooker was invented round 1875, when he was six
years old! But there may be some confusion about the years, somewhere. Can anyone tell me
who Sir Neville Chamberlain, the inventor of snooker, was?
Paul Hahn
May 4, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/4/95
to Rosemary Hahn
In his Encylopedia, Shamos explicitly refers to him as "Sir Neville
Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain (not the gentleman who later became prime
minister)". He also casts doubt on the veracity of this story (of the
invention of snooker), which is not corroborated by contemporary sources
and only began to crop up in the 1930s.
--pH (many...@library.wustl.edu or http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote)
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