Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 1 (of 3) / Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

by Henry Downes Miles

And, his last combat o’er, here Jackson lies.

This Monument was erected by the subscriptions

of several noblemen and gentlemen,

to record their admiration of one

whose excellence of heart and incorruptible worth

endeared him to all who knew him.

MONUMENT TO JOHN JACKSON IN BROMPTON CEMETERY.
Thomas Butler, Sculpsit, 1847.

CHAPTER IV.

BILL HOOPER (THE TINMAN)—1789–1797.