What did Joseph Hobson Jagger 'break' in July 1875?
Joseph Jagger and Changed Gambling Forever", published by Amberley in 2018. Joseph Jagger Joseph Hobson Jagger (2 September 1830 – 25 April 1892) was an English textile industry businessman from Yorkshire, who in is said to have "broken the bank at Monte Carlo" by identifying and exploiting biases in the wheels of the roulette tables there. Joseph Jagger was born at Cock Hill, near Shelf, Yorkshire on 2 September 1830. In his youth he worked in the textile trade in Bradford. He married Matilda with whom he had two sons and two daughters. In the 1871 census, Jagger was described as a
Joseph Hobson in the Caledon Mountain Trout Club. Hobson married Elizabeth Laidlaw of Guelph in 1856. They had two sons and four daughters. Joseph Hobson Hobson was born in 1834 in Guelph Township in Wellington County, Ontario. He had a brother, John, who was born in 1835. Hobson's parents were Joseph and Margaret Hobson. Hobson attended log schoolhouses in Guelph for his primary schooling. He then moved to Toronto and was there for seven years. He apprenticed with John Tully as a land surveyor. During this time he did layout plans for the Ontario towns of Kitchener and Guelph. Later he apprenticed