Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 10th December 2026

Time: Lines open 7.15pm with the lecture starting 7.30pm

Venue: ZOOM lecture

Description: Anne Fletcher read history at Oxford University and enjoyed a successful career in heritage, before turning to writing books. The great-great-great niece of Joseph Hobson Jagger, her search for his story started with only a photograph, a newspaper article and the lyrics of the famous song. This is the story of a man who went from Yorkshire mill worker to Monte Carlo millionaire, and the only man known to have devised an infallible and completely legal system to defeat the odds at roulette and win a fortune. But he was not a gentleman or an aristocrat, he wasn’t even a professional gambler, he was a Yorkshire textile worker who had laboured in the Victorian mills of Bradford since childhood.

How to book: This is a members only event and free, but you must register with our secretary for the access code - jacobscme@gmail.com

Email: jacobscme@gmail.com

Lecturer: Anne Fletcher, Historian

Region: South-East England

Branch: Isle of Wight