John Smith, better known by the name of Buckhorse. 18th century bareknuckle prizefighter with a mishapen head, he fought 71 fights, losing to Somerset John Cooper and heavyweight champion Jack Broughton. Later, he allowed Eton and Westminster boys to punch him for a shilling a blow. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper after a portrait by Daniel Dodd 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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