Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… favourite places for inveterate gamblers such as Horace Walpole, George Augustus Selwyn or Charles James Fox (see entry Betting book ). William Hogarth, ‘A Rake’s Progress’. Plate 6: ‘Scene in a Gaming house’, Wikimedia Commons, 1735. 10 . … to other gentlemen) were the first ones that one should pay. By following the rules and rituals attached to gambling or betting and by paying his debts, the gentleman aimed to uphold his social status: ' aristocrats did not gamble to win, … downfall. Brummell’s debts of honour were always paid immediately. The one exception was the final wager in White’s betting book, which was marked 'not paid, 20th January, 1816.' 19 Consequently, Brummell, owing thousands of pounds, fled …
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