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JOHN GULLY (1783-1863)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 715 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:GULLY (1783-1863)  , See also:English sportsman and politician, was See also:born at See also:Wick, near See also:Bath, on the 21st of See also:August 1783, the son of an innkeeper . He came into prominence as a boxer, and in r8o5 he was matched against See also:Henry See also:Pearce, the " See also:Game Chicken," before the See also:duke of See also:Clarence (afterwards See also:William IV.) and numerous other spectators, and after fighting sixty-four rounds, which occupied an See also:hour and seventeen minutes, was beaten . In 1807 he twice fought Bob Gregson, the See also:Lancashire See also:giant, for two See also:hundred guineas a See also:side, winning on both occasions . As the landlord of the "Plough " See also:tavern in See also:Carey See also:Street, See also:London, he retired from the See also:ring in 18o8, and took to See also:horse-racing . In 1827 he lost !40,000 by backing his horse " See also:Mameluke " (for which he had paid four thousand guineas) for the St Leger . In See also:partnership with See also:Robert Ridskale, in 1832, he made £85,000 by winning the See also:Derby and St Leger with " St See also:Giles " and " See also:Margrave . " In partnership with See also:John See also:Day he won the Two Thousand Guineas with " Ugly See also:Buck " in 1844, and two years later he took the Derby and the Oaks with " See also:Pyrrhus the First " and " Mendicant," in 18J4 the Two Thousand Guineas with "See also:Hermit," and in the same See also:year, in partnership with Henry Padwick, the Derby with " See also:Andover." Having bought Ackworth See also:Park near See also:Pontefract he was M.P. from See also:December 1832 to See also:July 1837 . In 1862 he See also:purchased the See also:Wingate See also:Grange See also:estate and collieries . See also:Gully was twice married and had twelve See also:children by each wife . He died at See also:Durham on the 9th of See also:March 1863, He appears to have been no relation of the subsequent See also:Speaker, See also:Lord See also:Selby .

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