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During the second half of 1824 John Jackson distances himself almost completely from the #PrizeRing & by Mid 1825 Harry HOLT had become manager of the #LondonPrizeRing & is referred to as, ‘the Cicero of the Ring’

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During the second half of 1824 John Jackson distances himself almost completely from the #PrizeRing & by Mid 1825 Harry HOLT had become manager of the #LondonPrizeRing & is referred to as, ‘the Cicero of the Ring’

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

During the second half of 1824 John Jackson distances himself almost completely from the #PrizeRing & by Mid 1825 Harry HOLT had become manager of the #LondonPrizeRing & is referred to as, ‘the Cicero of the Ring’

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

During the second half of 1824 John Jackson distances himself almost completely from the #PrizeRing & by Mid 1825 Harry HOLT had become manager of the #LondonPrizeRing & is referred to as, ‘the Cicero of the Ring’

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

During the second half of 1824 John Jackson distances himself almost completely from the #PrizeRing & by Mid 1825 Harry HOLT had become manager of the #LondonPrizeRing & is referred to as, ‘the Cicero of the Ring’

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

The Champion of #England from 1795-1800 & a founding member of the Pugilistic Club in 1814, ‘Gentleman’ John Jackson was a leading figure in the #LondonPrizeRing. Jackson managed the #PrizeRing for over a decade & was referred to as the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the Pugilistic Corps.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

The Champion of #England from 1795-1800 & a founding member of the Pugilistic Club in 1814, ‘Gentleman’ John Jackson was a leading figure in the #LondonPrizeRing. Jackson managed the #PrizeRing for over a decade & was referred to as the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the Pugilistic Corps.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

The Champion of #England from 1795-1800 & a founding member of the Pugilistic Club in 1814, ‘Gentleman’ John Jackson was a leading figure in the #LondonPrizeRing. Jackson managed the #PrizeRing for over a decade & was referred to as the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the Pugilistic Corps.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

The Champion of #England from 1795-1800 & a founding member of the Pugilistic Club in 1814, ‘Gentleman’ John Jackson was a leading figure in the #LondonPrizeRing. Jackson managed the #PrizeRing for over a decade & was referred to as the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the Pugilistic Corps.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

The Champion of #England from 1795-1800 & a founding member of the Pugilistic Club in 1814, ‘Gentleman’ John Jackson was a leading figure in the #LondonPrizeRing. Jackson managed the #PrizeRing for over a decade & was referred to as the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the Pugilistic Corps.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

#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

#HarryHolt #Genealogy #Pugilist #Holt #HarryHoltBiography #SportsHistory #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Prizefighter #LondonPrizeRing #Regency #Georgian #C19th #19thCentury #History

#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

#HarryHolt #Genealogy #Pugilist #Holt #HarryHoltBiography #SportsHistory #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Prizefighter #LondonPrizeRing #Regency #Georgian #C19th #19thCentury #History

#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

#HarryHolt #Genealogy #Pugilist #Holt #HarryHoltBiography #SportsHistory #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Prizefighter #LondonPrizeRing #Regency #Georgian #C19th #19thCentury #History

#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

#HarryHolt #Genealogy #Pugilist #Holt #HarryHoltBiography #SportsHistory #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Prizefighter #LondonPrizeRing #Regency #Georgian #C19th #19thCentury #History

#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

#HarryHolt #Genealogy #Pugilist #Holt #HarryHoltBiography #SportsHistory #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Prizefighter #LondonPrizeRing #Regency #Georgian #C19th #19thCentury #History

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.

#HarryHolt #Genealogy #Pugilist #Holt #HarryHoltBiography #SportsHistory #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Prizefighter #LondonPrizeRing #Regency #Georgian #C19th #19thCentury #History

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.

#HarryHolt #Genealogy #Pugilist #Holt #HarryHoltBiography #SportsHistory #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Prizefighter #LondonPrizeRing #Regency #Georgian #C19th #19thCentury #History

#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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#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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#OnThisDay 12Dec1826 Ned NEAL defeats Phil SAMPSON in 10 rounds and 1hr6min at South Mimms Common. NEALE Seconded by his trainer Harry HOLT & Josh HUDSON, SAMPSON by Jem WARD & Jem BURNS (£200 a side) #SouthMimms

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