John Cavanagh

(d. 1819)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Cavanagh, John [Jack] (d. 1819), fives player LBT ID: JoCavan1819	DIED: 1819-02-05
SOURCES: DNB
Irish-born house painter and handball player; William Hazlitt, his memorialist, saw him perform at the fives court in St Martin's Street, Leicester Fields.
REFERENCES TO John Cavanagh: William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XXIII Found 1: ¶ 32