John Jackson
Professional Boxer, Boxer
1769 – 1845
Who was John Jackson?
"Gentleman" John Jackson was a celebrated English pugilist of the late 18th century.
He won the title Champion of England in a fight on 15 April 1795 in which he beat Daniel Mendoza. After this he created a boxing academy for gentlemen at 13 Bond Street, London. Jackson's Saloon was popular with the nobility and gentry. Lord Byron relates in his diary that he received instruction in boxing from Jackson.
Byron referred to Jackson as the 'Emperor of Pugilism', and the leading prizefight reporter, Pierce Egan, writing in Boxiana declared him to be the 'fixed star' of the 'Pugilistic Hemisphere'.
In the artist Thomas Lawrence's 1797 exhibition at the Royal Academy, an enormous painting of Satan Summoning his Legions was based upon a giant portrait of Jackson. In 1814, Jackson helped to establish the 'Pugilistic Club'.
Jackson is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
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- Born
- Sep 28, 1769
London - Profession
- Died
- Oct 7, 1845
- Resting place
- Brompton Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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