biography
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| lived:
| (c.1695–1734)
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| biography:
| Fencer and pugilist, born in Thame, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He gave displays of quarterstaff, fencing, and boxing in Marylebone, and ran a booth at Southwark. He is regarded as one of the greatest of 18th-c sporting figures, and is portrayed in Hogarth's Rake's Progress and Southwark Fair. |
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