Jacob Henry Sarratt (1772 – 6 November 1819) was one of the top English chess players of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Sarratt was renowned as a player and author and adopted the title "Professor of Chess".
[2] He introduced into England the chess rule that a stalemate is a draw, which was commonly used on the continent of Europe.
In 1803 he met Camilla Dufour, a singer who was writing for the same publisher.
He and Dufour married at St. Leonard's, church in Shoreditch at the end of 1804.