Tom Cribb [Black Diamond]

(1781-1848)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cribb, Tom, 1781-1848 DNB: Cribb, Tom (1781-1848), pugilist LBT ID: ThCribb1848 VIAF ID: 19567815 LOC ID: nr95012959	B/BAP: 1781-07-08 DIED: 1848-05-11
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English pugilist who had been a coal-porter before assuming his career in the ring.
REFERENCES TO Tom Cribb [Black Diamond]: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 7 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 56 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. X.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 39 (September 1833) 33-46 Found 1: ¶ 18 [John Mitford], “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine NS 1 (June 1834) 583-93 Found 1: ¶ 61 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VIII 1822 Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 5 ¶ 11 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 25