John Broughton

(1703 c.-1789)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Broughton, John, 1705-1789 DNB: Broughton, John (c.1703–1789), pugilist LBT ID: JoBroug1789 VIAF ID: 26916494 LOC ID: nr90028561	B/BAP: 1703 DIED: 1789-01-08
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Prize-fighter who built an amphitheatre in London and established Broughton’s Rules which were used into the nineteenth century.
REFERENCES TO John Broughton: William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VIII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 12