The poet John Suckling is credited as the inventor of which card game?
John Suckling (poet) John Suckling (poet) Sir John Suckling (10 February 1609 – after May 1641) was an English poet and a prominent figure among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit, the accomplishments of a Cavalier poet. He was also the inventor of the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem "Ballad Upon a Wedding". He was born at Whitton, in the parish of Twickenham, Middlesex, and baptized there on 10 February 1609. His father, Sir John Suckling, was Secretary of State under James I and Comptroller of the Household of Charles I, and his mother was Elizabeth Cranfield,
John Suckling (poet) describing a meeting of the contemporary versifiers under the presidency of Apollo to decide who should wear the laurel wreath, is the prototype of many later satires. A collection of Suckling's poems was first published in 1646 as "Fragmenta aurea". The so-called "Selections" (1836) published by Alfred Inigo Suckling is in fact a complete edition of his works, of which WC Hazlitt's edition (1874; revised ed., 1892) is little more than a reprint with some additions. "The Poems and Songs of Sir John Suckling", edited by John Gray and decorated with woodcut border and initials by Charles Ricketts, was artistically