PAULSON

Henry . b. Nottingham 4 May 1819; a ballast-heaver at Nottingham; beat Tom Paddock for £25 a side at Sedge brook near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851; beaten by Paddock for £50 a side at Cro End near Belper, Derby shire 16 Dec. 1851, there was a disgraceful riot, both men were apprehended and sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment in Derby gaol with hard labour, March 1852; beaten by Paddock for £100 a side at Milden hall, Suffolk 14 Feb. 1854, in 102 rounds lasting 152 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers £50 a side at Apple dore, Kent 29 Jany. 1856, in 109 rounds lasting 3 hours and 8 minutes; beat Harry Tyson £50 a side at Kentish Marshes 14 May 1859. d. at his daughter’s house, Newmarket yard, Sneinton Market, Nottingham 11 Dec. 1890. bur. 15 Dec. F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring (1888) 130–9; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistic a iii 277–83, 371–9 (1881); Illust. sporting news iii 261 (1861) portrait ; Sportsman 12 Dec. 1890 p. 4.