Snooker’s Pool derived its title from a Colonel Snooker?

The Billiard Times. July, 1911

Querist (Waltham).—It is generally believed that the game of Snooker’s Pool derived its title from a Colonel Snooker, who is credited with inventing it. But, although I have tried, I have never been able to trace any authentic record of this Colonel Snooker, and I am inclined to doubt his existence, although I think there can be little doubt that the game was invented in the Army, probably in India.