1. Joseph Hobson Jagger was an English textile industry businessman from Yorkshire, who in around 1881 is said to have "broken the bank at Monte Carlo" by identifying and exploiting biases in the wheels of the roulette tables there.
10 Facts About Joseph Jagger
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Joseph Jagger used his winnings to buy property in Bradford.
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Joseph Jagger was born at Cock Hill, Shelf, Yorkshire on 2 September 1830.
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Joseph Jagger married Matilda with whom he had two sons and two daughters.
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Joseph Jagger set up his own textile business but it failed and he was faced with bankruptcy and four children to support.
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On his return to Yorkshire, Joseph Jagger used some of the money to purchase houses in Little Horton, Bradford, that were occupied by members of his family.
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Joseph Jagger died on 25 April 1892, according to Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, "probably mainly from boredom" his death certificate gives diabetes as the cause.
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Joseph Jagger was buried in the family grave at the Methodist Bethel Chapel in Shelf, Halifax.
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Joseph Jagger is incorrectly described by Brewers as the inspiration for Fred Gilbert's song "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo", first performed around the early 1890s; however, the song is thought to have actually been written about the gambler and fraudster Charles Wells.
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Joseph Jagger is the subject of a biography by his great-great niece Anne Fletcher titled From the Mill to Monte Carlo: The Working-Class Englishman Who Beat the Monaco Casino and Changed Gambling Forever, published by Amberley in 2018.