Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 2 (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, 1719-1740, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

by Henry Downes Miles

Where shall we look to find a “Pet” like you?

Sound be thy sleep, receive my last good night,

And may the turf upon thy breast be light,

For though in manhood’s prime by fate unshipp’d,

Thou wert a boy as brave as ever stripp’d;

Time shall fly forward, years shall wax and wane,

Ere “we shall look upon thy like again.”

M.

BARNEY AARON (“THE STAR OF THE EAST”)—1819–1834.

The subject of this biography first opened his eyes on the bustling world in the populous Goshen of Duke’s Place, Aldgate, on the 21st of November, 1800.