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A comedic character named Snooker first appeared around the mid-nineteenth century. He was initially paired with Hooker (according to some sources as a pirate version of the French comedians Box and Cox), and from the end of the century onwards he appeared in solo or duo performances with other comedians. Snooker was the subject of novels and stories, performed on the theatre stage and in the circus, and humorous sketches about his adventures were published in almost all newspapers in the UK and the USA. It is notable that books were published in which the main or secondary character was a person named or nicknamed Snooker. This raises the question of whether this story has any influence on the fact that the game of billiards was named snooker. It is quite possible that it did.

To be followed by a peculiarity called HOOKER AND SNOOKER

Published:
28 April 2024
Original:
30 March 1851

Weekly Chronicle (London), Sunday 30 March 1851 ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Reproduction of the successful drama of Belphegor, in which Mr….

The farce of Hooker and Snooker

Published:
28 April 2024
Original:
1 November 1850

Tallis’s Dramatic Magazine and General Theatrical and Musical Review, November 1850, P. 218 On Easter Monday the theatre reopened with a new drama, written conjunctively…

QUITS. A Commercial Traveler’s Tale.

Published:
26 April 2024
Original:
18 May 1883

Old commercial travelers will tell you that in many respects the profession is nothing to what it was; though for our own part we are…