About Isaac Spratt
Lived 1799 – 1876 (aged 76–77). Isaac Spratt was a British author, croquet player and businessperson.
Isaac Spratt (1799 – 1876) was an English businessman who specialised in sale of toys, recreational equipment and, most notably, pamphlets describing the games of croquet and badminton. Spratt's description and promotion of those sports was influential in the early development and popularisation of both in England.
It is known he was born in Ibsley, Hampshire, and that he was married with four children. From 1840, he was a proprietor of a toy shop at 1 Brook Street (later no 18) in London's West End.
In 1856, he registered the first printed set of rules for the game of croquet and in 1860 printed a pamphlet called 'Badminton Battledore' a description of the ancient game of battledores and shuttlecocks as played competitively at Badminton House, the Duke of Beaufort's estate in Gloucestershire, England.
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Who was Isaac Spratt?
English author
When was Isaac Spratt born?
Isaac Spratt was born in 1799.
When did Isaac Spratt die?
Isaac Spratt died in 1876.
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Isaac Spratt was an author, croquet player and businessperson.
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Isaac Spratt was British.
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