Harry Holmes (boxer) explained

Harry Holmes
Nationality:British (English)
Sport:Boxing
Birth Date:12 November 1878
Birth Place:Hampstead, London, England
Death Place:Hampstead, London, England

Henry Charles Berkeley Holmes (1878–1951) was a British boxer.[1] He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[2]

Biography

Henry Charles Berkeley Holmes was born in London in 1878. At the start of his boxing career, he won the 1905 Amateur Boxing Association British featherweight title, when boxing out of the 17th Middlesex Rifles BC.[3] [4] In 1908, he left the Columbia BC, joined the Polytechnic Boxing Club, won a second A.B.A title (this time at the lightweight class), and went on to compete in the 1908 Summer Olympics in that year.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Harold Holmes . Olympedia . 18 March 2021.
  2. Harold Holmes Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042335/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/harold-holmes-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 4 November 2018.
  3. Web site: Roll of Honour. England Boxing. 14 January 2022.
  4. News: The Amateur Championships . Sheffield Daily Telegraph . 12 April 1905 . 14 January 2022 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .