Joseph Assheton Fincher, the inventor of the game of Tiddledy-Winks, was born on 21 July 1863 in the village of Longparish near the town of Andover in the English county of Hampshire. He was the son of Reverend Joseph Guillemard Fincher (1830–1875) and Isabella Anne Blythe (1831–1880) and had three sisters, Isabella, Lilian, and Dorothy. His father was a Reverend of the Church of England, an incumbent of St. Peter’s Church in the village of Sea View near the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight in 1871 and later the Perpetual Curate of St. Peter’s. As of 1881, J. A. Fincher was a student and boarder at St. Edward’s School on Woodstock Road in Oxford, England. As of 1891, he worked as a bank clerk and lived in the Odsey Grange building in the village of Guilden Morden in the English county of Cambridgeshire. On 8 November 1888 when Fincher delivered his provisional specification for patenting the game to Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, he was 25 years old and lived at 114 Oxford Street at its corner with Berners Street in London’s West End, just a few blocks east of Oxford Circus (though it was called Regent Circus North at the time). He submitted the complete patent specification on 7 August 1889 when he lived at 9 Berners Street near Eastcastle Street in London, just a minute’s walk from his residence the year before. In 1890, he lived at Lampard Brook near Framlington in Suffolk county, a hundred miles northeast of London. He died on 14 July 1900 at the young age of 36 on the “Platform at Waterloo Station, Lambeth”, in Central London, of “Convulsions from Congestion of the Brain“. At the time, his occupation was a “Manufacturer’s Manager at Brookland Villas”. Given that tiddlywinks became a phenomenal craze in the UK and US and elsewhere throughout the 1890s, we hope he enjoyed watching the game he invented become a worldwide success and classic game for the ages.