John Gully

(1783-1863)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gully, John, 1783-1863 DNB: Gully, John (1783–1863), prize-fighter, racehorse owner, and politician LBT ID: JoGully1863 VIAF ID: 66310604 LOC ID: nr00037269	B/BAP: 1783-08-21 DIED: 1863-03-09
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English prize-fighter who made a fortune in horse-racing and was afterwards MP for Pontefract (1832-37).
REFERENCES TO John Gully: Earl of Sefton to Thomas Creevey, 26 April 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 26 May 1830 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 27 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VIII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 4 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. III: 1805 Found 4: ¶ n2 ¶ 62 ¶ 63 ¶ n2 Ch. VI: 1827-28 Ch. IX: 1830-31