Who Invented Snooker and When?

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Who invented snooker and when?
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Below is what we understand to be the 'History of
Snooker'. Snooker compared to Billiards may be a
relatively new game that has fast become one
among the nations hottest spectator and
participation sports. determine more below about
how it had been first invented and therefore the
unexpected way the name 'Snooker' was given it's
name.
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• Billiards which American snooker derived
  from was thought to be played as early because
  the 1340's, with Louis XI of France owning a pool
  table within the 1470's. The term 'snooker' was
  given to the sport by Colonel Sir Chamberlain in
  1875 whilst serving within the Army. within the
  Officers' Mess at Jubbulpore in India, gambling
  games like pyramids, life pool and black pool
  were popular, with fifteen reds and a black
  utilized in the latter. to those were added
  yellow, green and pink, with blue and brown
  introduced some years later. One afternoon
  Chamberlain's Devonshire regiment was visited by
  a young officer who had been trained at the Royal
  academy in Woolwich. 

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• Chamberlain himself joined the Central India
  Horse in 1876, taking the sport with him. After
  being wounded within the Afghan War, he moved to
  Ooatacamund and therefore the game became the
  speciality of the 'Ooty Club', with rules being
  posted within the billiards room.

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• John Roberts (Junior), who was then Billiards
  Champion, visited India in 1885, met Chamberlain
  at dinner with the Maharajah of Cooch Behar and
  enquired about the principles of snooker. He then
  introduced the sport into England, although it
  had been a few years before it became widely
  played there. Manufacturers of billiards
  equipment, however, soon realised the commercial
  possibilities of snooker, and by the top of the
  1800's the sport had developed as had the tables
  into as we all know them today.

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• The biggest individual contribution to
  snooker came from Joe Davis and his brother Fred
  who dominated the sport for over 50 years between
  them and were instrumental within the games
  transition from a grand aristocratic game to a
  working-class pastime. Joe won 15 consecutive
  world championships and Fred won 8 world
  championships. There was only a couple of decent
  players but the quality was relatively low the
  very best break in 1922 being 33, Joe's game
  developed to some extent where he made a 147
  maximum break which was recognized in 1957, and
  was obviously way before his time in terms of
  skills and techniques. Fred was younger than Joe
  by 12 years and was unlucky to not have had his
  name highlighted in snooker history like his
  brothers.

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