Harry Holmes | |
Nationality: | British |
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]
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.