At all events, the author, by personal inquiry, has positively ascertained that he did not belong to the family of Yorkshire Hoyles, who acquired estates near Halifax temp Edward III. Top Hat from 1935 starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers along with Edward Everett Horton. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), statesman, naval leader, and the last viceroy of India. John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland (1818-1906), English statesman, Postmaster-General, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and poet. Charles Gurdon (1855-1931), English rower and rugby union forward, captained an England international side. On the other side I saw the red signal-lamps of a railway. As stated earlier, the club had three tables in the right side of the clubrooms and this situation lasted throughout the fifties. He was President of the University Pitt Club. Royal Bathers Club - club with Victorian Turkish baths of which Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy is a member in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Most baths of this period used the name 'Turkish' or 'improved Turkish'; the Roman Bath Co chose to use 'Roman (improved Turkish) Baths' in their share offers and early advertisements.

Dr. Johnson does not positively derive Whist from the interjectio silentium imperans; he cautiously explains Whist to be "a game at cards, requiring close attention and silence." Nares, in his Glossary, has "Whist, an interjection commanding silence;" and he adds, "That the name of the game of Whist is derived from this, is known, I presume, to all who play or do not play." He, however, in his preface, well remarks that he knows "the extreme fallaciousness of the science of etymology when based on mere similarity of sound;" but in the case of Whist, he has allowed similarity of sound to master his judgment. It has also been stated that Hoyle was appointed registrar of the prerogative court at Dublin, in 1742. This, however, is unlikely. Shortly after this, the celebrated EDMOND HOYLE, the father of the game, published his "Short Treatise: (1742-3). About Hoyle’s antecedents, but little is known. Book with the Zeal of a primitive Father.

The sharpers are disgusted at the appearance of the book. SIR CAL. O Gad, my Lord, What is a billiards club there never was so excellent a Book printed. While Whist was undergoing these changes of name and of character, there was for a time associated with it another title, viz., swabbers or swobbers. The fact is, the name Edmund or Edmond is common in both the Yorkshire and Irish families of Hoyle; and probably one Hoyle has been mistaken for another. In the fifteenth edition the signature is impressed from a wood block, and in the seventeenth it was announced that Mr. Hoyle was dead. Every subsequent edition of Seymour (with which Cotton was incorporated) makes the game ten up. It seems probable that Holy originally drew up some notes for the use of the pupils to whom he gave lessons in Whist, as his original edition speaks of "purchasers of the Treatise in Manuscript disposed of the last winter," and also that there was "a Treatise on the Game at Whist lately dispersed among a few Hands at a Guinea Price," and further, that the author of it "has fram’d an Artificial Memory which takes not off your Attention from your Game; and, if required, he is ready to communicate it upon Payment of one Guinea.

After the swabbers were dropped (and it is probable that they were not in general use in the eighteenth century), our national card game became known simply as Whist, though still occasionally spelt whisk. At this period (early part of the eighteenth century) there was a mania for card playing in all parts of Europe, and in all classes of society, but Whist had not as yet found favor in the highest circles. Mr. R. B. Wormald writes thus respecting them in 1873: - Being driven by stress of weather to take shelter in a sequestered hostelry on the Berkshire bank of the Thames, he found four persons immersed in the fame of Whist: "In the middle of the hand, one of the players with a grin that almost amounted to a chuckle, and a vast display of moistened thumb, spread out upon the table the ace of trumps; whereupon the other three deliberately laid down their hands, and forthwith severally handed over the sum of one penny to the fortunate holder of the card in question.