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‘A man's general character may be that of the honestest man of the world. Do not dispute it, - you might be thought envious or ill-natured; but at the same time do not take this probity upon trust to such a degree as to put your life, fortune, or reputation in his
power.’ Earl of #Chesterfield1774

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‘…without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same 3000 years ago as it is at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes & customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same.’ The Earl of #Chesterfield1774

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‘There are many short intervals during the day between studies and pleasures; instead of sitting idle and yawning in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book, it is still better than doing nothing.’

Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of #Chesterfield1774)

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‘Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.’

Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of #Chesterfield1774)

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Dr George #Berkeley 1685-1753 Bishop of Cloyne (writes) that there is no such thing as matter & that nothing exists but in idea; that you & I only fancy ourselves eating, drinking & sleeping…..that we think we have flesh & blood, legs, arms, etc., but that we are only spirit.

Earl of #Chesterfield1774

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‘Speak the language of the company that you are in;…Never seem wiser nor more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, & do not pull it out & strike it merely to show that you have one.’

Earl of #Chesterfield1774

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‘The more you know the modester you should be; &(by the by) that modesty is the surest way of gratifying your vanity. Even where you are sure, seem rather doubtful; represent but do not pronounce; & if you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself’ #Chesterfield1774

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‘remember never to be ashamed of doing what is right!’ #Chesterfield1774

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‘…an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.’ #Chesterfield1774

Quotes from Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773) the ‘Earl of Chesterfield’ published 1774

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‘I make use only of the word “advice," because I would much rather have the assent of your reason to my advice than the submission of your will to my authority.’ #Chesterfield1774

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#MUNDUNGUS: Bad or rank tobacco from ‘mondongo,’ a Spanish word signifying tripes, or the uncleaned entrails of a beast, full of filth. #Grose1823 #MundungusFletcher #HarryPotter

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‘There is nothing which I more wish that you should know, and which fewer people do know, than the true use and value of Time.’ #Chesterfield1774

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‘Never maintain an argument with heat and clamor, though you think or know yourself to be in the right, but give your opinion modestly and coolly, which is the only way to convince; and if that does not do, try to change the conversation’ #Chesterfield1774

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‘Remember to make a great difference between companions and friends; for a very complaisant and agreeable companion may, and often does, prove a very improper and a very dangerous friend.’ #Chesterfield1774

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#RAKE #RAKEHELL, or #RAKESHAME: A lewd, debauched fellow.

#MAN_OF_THE_TOWN: A rake, a debauchee. #Grose1823

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‘A man of pleasure, in the vulgar acceptation of that phrase means only a beastly drunkard, an abandoned rake and a profligate swearer and curser.’ #Chesterfield1774 #biography

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‘I bid you strike at the passions; and if you do, you too will prevail. If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity; ambition, - or whichever is their prevailing passion, on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.’ #Chesterfield1774

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‘Of all things banish the egotism out of your conversation, and never think of entertaining people with your own personal concerns or private affairs. Though they are interesting to you, they are tedious and impertinent to everybody else.’ #Chesterfield1774

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#HELL, or #HELLS: Gambling-houses at the West End of the town. #Grose1823

Gambling Houses in the East End or of a lower class were referred to as #Black_Hells.

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#SWELL: A gentleman; but any well dressed person is emphatically termed a ‘swell’. A family man who appears to have plenty of money & makes a genteel figure is said to be in ‘Swell-Street’. A ‘swell crib’ is a genteel house; a ‘swell mollisher’ an elegantly dressed woman. #Grose1823

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#OnThisDay 1Jan1825 Harry & Ann HOLT cater a dinner for 170 at Baxter&Co (CoachMakers) Long Acre

'The dinner was “got up” by HarryHolt in his best style, and the company certainly did ample justice to his culinary skill & nice taste in the choice of black strap, brandy & stout’

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#OnThisDay 31Dec1787 Jack ‘Scroggy’ SCROGGINS was born (John Palmer) near New Cross, #Deptford. He first entered the Ring a ‘Light Weight’ in May 1803 at the age of 15 before serving several years in the #Navy. Returned to the Prize Ring in 1812. 12win1dr7loss Died 1836 aged 49.

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Traditionally a retired #Prizefighter would take the lease of a Public House & Harry Holt was no different. By January 1821 Holt had moved his family from #Lambeth to #Westminster and taken the licence of the 'Golden Cross' in Cross Lane, Long Acre.

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#OnThisDay 30Dec1828 Jack Perkins, the ‘Oxford Pet’ defeats Dick Curtis in 11 rounds & 23min on the Parish Meadow close to the banks of the #Thames at #Hurley Bottom, #Berkshire. Perkins was Seconded by Tom Spring & Harry HOLT, and Curtis by Josh Hudson & Young Dutch Sam. (£100 a side).

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Barney Arron (1800-1859), the ‘Star of the East’ fought 11x in the #LondonPrizeRing with 7wins4losses. He was the father of American Lightweight Champion (1857) ‘Young Barney Arron’ (pic) & Great Grandfather of American playwright Moss Hart (pic:1940) whose wife was actress Kitty Carlisle Hart (1910-2007)

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#OnThisDay 30Dec1823 Jewish boxer Barney Aaron (pic) defeats Frank Redmond in 42 rounds & 1hr12min at Moulsey Hurst. Aaron was Seconded by two unknown amateurs, and Redmond by Harry HOLT and Dick Curtis (£25 a side) #Molesey

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Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon. They launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage. #Chesterfield1774

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Harry Holt gained high praise from his win against Jack O’Donnell & immense respect for fearlessly entering the Ring with Joe Parish, Jack Randall, Dave Hudson & Jack Scroggins. He was seen as a ‘game man’ and #celebrity of the #London Prize Ring.

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During 1820 Harry Holt spars at Benefits for pugilists like Jack Scroggins, Jack Martin, Ned Turner, Bill Eales, Tom Belcher & Jack Randall. He also regularly acts as a Second for several minor boxers at fighting grounds like #Moulsey Hurst, #Banstead Downs & #Wimbledon Common.

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#OnThisDay 28Dec1821 Champion of England Tom CRIBB is arrested on a ‘peace warrant’ after allegedly threatening to throw the proprietor of the Tennis Courts, Mr S.W. HUNT under a wagon & give his son a punch in the mouth. CRIBB was discharged after HUNT was unable to prove his claim.

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#OnThisDay 28Dec1829 Highly respected #pugilist & trainer Bill RICHMOND (born 1763) dies at the age of 67 leaving a wife and 4 children. Buried as William RICHMOND on the 11th January 1830 in St James, #Piccadilly.

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#OnThisDay 28Dec1824 Jem WARD (pic) defeats Phil SAMPSON the ‘#Birmingham Youth’ in 27 rounds and 37 1/2min at Perry Lodge, the estate of the 4th Duke of Grafton (pic: George FitzRoy) 4mi from #Stony_Stratford and 58mi from #London. 6000 persons were in attendance.

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'HOLT & SAMPSON wound up the sports, in a very spirited set-to. They were much applauded. (Holt) returned thanks rather in an eloquent manner for the patronage he had received; & the fluency of his speech, & the superiority he displayed...produced Holt considerable approbation.’

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#LondonBeerFlood: Henry #Meux & Co ‘Horse Shoe Brewery’ in #Westminster (pic: 1764-1921). On 17th October 1814 a large vat ruptured & up to 323,000imp gallons (1,470,000L) of beer spilled into neighbouring houses killing 8 people in what was referred to as the ‘London Beer Flood’

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#OnThisDay 26Dec1826 Peter CRAWLEY has a Benefit at the Tennis Courts. Harry HOLT spars with Bill ABBOTT.

‘Harry Holt then mounted the stage with Will Abbot, & shewed to great advantage the superiority of science and caution over untutored courage..’ MorningAdvertiser27Dec1826

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#CHRISTMAS COMPLIMENTS: A cough, kibed (chapped/cracked) heels, and a snotty nose. #Grose1823

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Harry Holt held his first Benefit at the newly renovated Tennis Courts on Great Windmill St #Haymarket on Thursday the 20th April 1820 and sparred with a 19yr old #boxer named Phillip Sampson who was known as ‘The #Birmingham Youth.’

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In 1831 the (#Royal) Tennis Courts were converted into an Amphitheatre for Cooke’s Equestrian #Circus. In c1851 it became the #Argyll Rooms then the #Trocadero Music Hall (1882) & after the creation of Shaftesbury Ave (1886) it became a restaurant. Now it’s the Picturehouse Central cinema.

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‘One must be extremely exact, clear, and perspicuous in everything one says; otherwise instead of entertaining or informing others, one only tires and puzzles them.’ #Chesterfield1774

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#OnThisDay 23Dec1840 #Birmingham Boxer Johnny BROOME has a Benefit at the Bloomsbury Assembly Rooms, Theobald’s Road, Holborn. HOLT (49) spars with “Massa” KENDRICK (42)

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The (#Royal) Tennis Courts were constructed in (Great) Windmill St, #Haymarket during 1744 by John Cartwright who occupied them until 1761. After a renovation in 1819-20 they could be hired for exhibitions and entertainments like Sparring Benefits, #Circus and #Theatre. #London

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Bill Richmond held the first Benefit at the newly renovated (Royal) Tennis Courts in Great Windmill St, #Haymarket on 29Feb1820. Harry HOLT sparred with Deaf Davis & at the end Tom Cribb put on a dinner at his newly opened Union Arms in Panton St no more than 100m away.

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‘want of attention, which is really want of thought, is either folly or madness.’ #Chesterfield1774

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#OnThisDay 21Dec1824 Actress Miss Maria FOOTE (27)(pictured) famously sues Mr Joseph ‘Pea Green’ HAYNES (24) in the Court of the Kings Bench, for ‘breach of promise of Marriage’ claiming a loss of £10,000 in income. Mr HAYNES a wealthy backer of the Prize Ring is ordered to pay £3000

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And thus with the loss to Jack Scroggins in November 1820, Harry Holt’s #Prizefighting career ended & he never entered the Prize Ring as a professional fighter again, instead he turned to #training fighters & #promoting the Ring as one of the sport’s most devoted & staunch advocates of the era.

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‘However frivolous a company may be, still while you are among them, do not show them by your inattention that you think them so; but rather take their tone, and conform in some degree to their weakness, instead of manifesting your contempt for them.’ #Chesterfield1774

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#MUFFLERS: Boxing-gloves, used in sparring. #Grose1823

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‘I need not tell you how rude it is to take the best place in a room, or to seize immediately upon what you like at table, without offering first to help others, - as if you considered nobody but yourself.’ #Chesterfield1774

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‘it is always extremely rude to answer only Yes, or No, to anybody, without adding Sir, My Lord, or Madam, according to the quality of the person you speak to’ #Chesterfield1774

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#TODDLE: To walk away.
Example: ‘The cove was touting, but stagging the traps he toddled.’

Translation: ‘he was looking out, and seeing the officers he walked away’

#Grose1823

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