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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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#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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#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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‘It was a much better fight than has frequently been seen when boxers have been in training for 6 wks…It was a most gallant battle on both sides; but the blows of Holt were not hard enough to stop (Scroggins). The accident Holt received in the 24th, perhaps, lost him the fight.’ Pierce Egan(1821) Boxiana Vol3.

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#OnThisDay 20Dec1824 METCALF defeats Captain PARKER in a pedestrian running match of 1/4 mile (400m) for £1000 at #Sunbury Common. METCALF won 54 1/2sec to Captain Parker’s 55 1/2sec.

‘The Captain was attended by Harry Holt, who occasionally sparred and walked with him’

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The fight between Holt & Scroggins went 33rnds & ~40min. In the 24th Scroggins ‘bore Holt into a corner’ & as they fell, Holt’s head connected heavily with the window-sill almost knocking him out. Holt was ‘altered’ but continued for another 9rnds until he could no longer stand giving the win to Scroggins.

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At 11.30pm on Thursday the 30th November 1820 in front of a small select group of pugilists and ‘Fancy’ Harry Holt set-to with Jack Scroggins in a ‘Hard Room-Fight’ at the Hole-in-the-Wall public house in Chancery Lane for 10 guineas.

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The exact location of Thomas Hickman’s grave is unknown. The burial ground was renamed 'Postman’s Park' & is one of #London’s largest #PublicOpenSpaces containing the '#Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice' proposed by artist #GeorgeFrederickWatts in 1887(Est 1900) #StBotolph #Aldersgate

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#OnThisDay 19Dec1822 Thomas Hickman the ‘Gaslight Man’ is buried in Little Britain Church Yard, King Edward St near St Paul's Cathedral in Central #London. Due to a fear of Reserrectionist's snatching his body the grave was dug 18ft deep & a guard placed on it for several nights

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HOLT returned SCROGGINS thanks for his candour; but he, in return, though SCROGGINS would have no chance to win with him. But the best way would be to decide it instantly.

“I am ready,” says SCROGGINS; “but the winner shall have the whole purse.”

“I am agreeable,” replied Holt.’

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‘Fives Court-the amphitheatre wherein our free gladiators try their skill previous to more serious combats…On the stage, rendered as it were a classic spot by the efforts of those ‘giants of the Ring’ Crib, Spring, Harmer, Randall, Turner, Eales, Holt...’ WeeklyDispatch15Feb1824

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

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Tuesday was the #LondonPrizeRing’s designated fight day but when no fight was arranged the Pugilistic Club held a Benefit for a Boxer at 2pm in the Fives’ Court, St Martin’s Ln (St), Leicester Square on a spot where the Sainsbury Wing of The #NationalGallery #London stands today.

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#JohnBull was the personification of #English nationalism usually depicted as an honest & hardworking #Englishman with a cheerful & jolly disposition who was satisfied by the simple things in life.

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Jack Randall the ‘Nonpareil’(no match or equal, #unrivalled/#unparalleled) was Seconded by Paddington Jones & Dick Whale, Harry Holt by Ned Painter & Jack Clarke. Randall was #undefeated in 16x Prizefights but being the same height & weight as Harry Holt (#Light_Weight) he was ineligible for a Championship Title.

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Jack Randall the ‘Nonpareil’(no match or equal, #unrivalled/#unparalleled) was Seconded by Paddington Jones & Dick Whale, Harry Holt by Ned Painter & Jack Clarke. Randall was #undefeated in 16x Prizefights but being the same height & weight as Harry Holt (#Light_Weight) he was ineligible for a Championship Title.

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Jack Randall the ‘Nonpareil’(no match or equal, #unrivalled/#unparalleled) was Seconded by Paddington Jones & Dick Whale, Harry Holt by Ned Painter & Jack Clarke. Randall was #undefeated in 16x Prizefights but being the same height & weight as Harry Holt (#Light_Weight) he was ineligible for a Championship Title.

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Jack Randall the ‘Nonpareil’(no match or equal, #unrivalled/#unparalleled) was Seconded by Paddington Jones & Dick Whale, Harry Holt by Ned Painter & Jack Clarke. Randall was #undefeated in 16x Prizefights but being the same height & weight as Harry Holt (#Light_Weight) he was ineligible for a Championship Title.

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#OnThisDay 10Dec1822 Tom HICKMAN the 'Gaslight Man'(pic) & his patron Mr ROE are killed after their single horse ‘chaise’ crashed near #Whetstone on the way home from watching Tom SHELTON defeat Josh HUDSON at @HarpendenCommon 25mi from #London

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#COACH_WHEEL: A half-crown piece is a fore coach wheel, and a crown piece a hind coach wheel; the fore wheels of a coach being less than the hind ones. #Grose1823

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#OnThisDay 8Dec1840 Articles are signed btwn ‘Big Ben’ CAUNT & Nick WARD to fight for the Championship on 2nd Feb 1841 within 60mi of #London

#BigBen the Great Bell (& Clock Tower) at #WestminsterPalace was supposedly named after CAUNT who claimed the Champion of England from 1838-45

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On Tuesday the 20th of August 1816, at the age of 25 Harry Holt entered the Ring for the first time with Joe Parish, the ‘Waterman’ at Moulsey Hurst in front of an estimated 15,000 spectators. (Picture: Isaac Robert Cruickshank: Going to a Fight 1819, Moulsey Hurst)

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