Jacob Henry Sarratt (1772 – 6 November 1819) was one of the top English chess players of the late 18th and early 19th century. Sarratt was renowned as a player and author and adopted the title "Professor of Chess" (Golombek 1977). He was the first professional player to teach chess in England (Sunnucks 1970). He introduced into England the chess rule that a stalemate is a draw, which was commonly used on the continent of Europe (Hooper & Whyld 1992). He coined with his works of 1813 and 1821 the term Muzio Gambit. He was a pupil of Verdoni and later the teacher of William Lewis and Peter Unger Williams.