Jack Scroggins

(1786-1829 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Scroggins, John, b. 1786 LBT ID: JaScrog1829 VIAF ID: 44007466 LOC ID: no2004039787	B/BAP: 1786-12-29
SOURCES: Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English prizefighter; born John Palmer, he was originally a seaman.
REFERENCES TO Jack Scroggins: Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 87 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VIII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 12