The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries, especially in England and in France. Vol. 2

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SIR JOHN BLAND, OF KIPPAX PARK.

Sir John Bland, of Kippax Park, flirted away his whole fortune at Hazard. `He, t'other night,' says Walpole, ' exceeded what was lost by the late

Duke of Bedford, having at one period of the night (though he recovered the greater part of it) lost two and thirty thousand pounds.' Sir John Kippax shot himself in 1705.

	ATROCITIES, DUELS, SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF GAMBLERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries, especially in England and in France. Vol. 2

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SIR JOHN BLAND, OF KIPPAX PARK.