Daniel Mendoza

(1765 c.-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836 DNB: Mendoza, Daniel (1765?-1836), pugilist LBT ID: DaMendo1836 LOC ID: n85142390	B/BAP: 1765 DIED: 1836-09-03
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Jewish pugilist who defeated Sam Martin, the Bath Butcher; he published The Art of Boxing (1789).
REFERENCES TO Daniel Mendoza: Walter Scott to George Ellis, 27 August 1803 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1803-04 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 23