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CROCKFORD, WILLIAM (17751844)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 478 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CRE-DAH
CROCKFORD, WILLIAM (17751844) , proprietor of Crock-ford's Club, was born in London in 1775, the son of a fishmonger,
and for some time himself carried on that business. After winning a large sum of moneyaccording to one story Ioo,000 either at cards or by running a gambling
establishment
 , he built, in 1827, a luxurious gambling
house
  at 50 St James's
Street
 , which, to ensure exclusiveness, he organized as a club. Crockford's quickly became the rage; every
English
  social celebrity and every distinguished foreigner visiting London hastened to become a member. Even the duke of
Wellington
  joined, though, it is averred, only in order to be able to blackball his son, Lord Douro, should he seek election. Hazard was the favourite game, and very large sums changed hands. Crockford
retired in 184o, when, in the expressive language of Captain R. H. Gronow, he had "won the whole of the ready money of the then existing generation." He took, indeed, about 1,200,000 out of the club, but subsequently lost most of it in unlucky speculations. Crockford died on the 24th of May 1844.
See John Timbs, Club
Life
  of London (London, 1866) ; Gronow, Celebrities of London and Paris, 3rd
series
  (London, 1865).


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