WARD'S BOOK OF EPONYMS Who gave their names to what
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A yarborough is a hand a bridge in which no card is higher than nine. It is named for Charles Anderson Worsley Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough (1809–1862), who offered odds of 1,000 to 1 against it happening. The Earl was on a winner as the mathematical odds are 1,827 to 1 against. Also named after the noble Earl is the Yarborough Hotel, a pub built in 1851 in Grimsby.
Yale locks These mechanisms are named for a father and son, Linus Yale Snr and Linus Yale Jnr. Yale Snr began to manufacture locks in 1840 in Newport, New York. Yale the younger was a portrait painter but could not earn enough at that profession so he joined his father’s business. Yale the younger invented the Yale Infallible Bank Lock, the Yale Magic Bank Lock and the Yale Double Treasury Bank Lock. His most important invention was the cylinder lock with serrated teeth. In 1868, he took on a partner, John Henry Towne, to found the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company. Sadly Yale died on Christmas Day that year.Other letters