John Broughton, a notorious pugilist. Waterman who became a famous English bare-knuckle prizefighter, 1704-1789. Opened a boxing academy at Haymarket in 1747 and later Broughton’s Amhiptheatre. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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