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Bare-knuckle fighter Tom Cribb, The Black Diamond, is a Bristol legend. And like all legends, he has attracted his fair share of myths.

Tom Cribb of Bristol, The Black Diamond, was undefeated Boxing Champion of England, yet there is no memorial to him in the city - not even Cribb’s Causeway! In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Bristol was a major centre of prize fighting that curious sport in which men toed a line and hammered each other into bloody oblivion. Someone once called the city ‘the parsley-bed of pugilism’. In that case, Thomas Cribb was the sauce.

Thomas was baptised in the parish of St Philip and St Jacob on July 2, 1781, the fourth of ten children born to Thomas and Hannah (nee Rogers) from St George. His grandfather, Isaac, also lived in St George and was described as a horse-driver. One of Thomas’s younger brothers, George, followed him into the ring, but had a short and unsuccessful career.

In 1794, at the age of 13, Cribb went to London and was initially apprenticed to a bell-hanger. It’s probable that his parents wanted to get him away from one of the roughest areas of Bristol, for six Cribbs were either hanged or transported between 1800 and 1819.

He became a coal porter at Wapping, a job which later gave him his boxing nickname of The Black Diamond. It was there he suffered two serious accidents (crushed between two barges and beneath a 5001b box of oranges) but recovered with no lasting ill effects.

He then enlisted in the Navy before trying his luck as a prizefighter in January 1805. He rapidly defeated George Maddox, amazingly still fighting at the age of 50, and three other contenders, but went down to Bristolian George Nichols - the only defeat in his entire professional career.

In 1807, he was taken on by Captain Robert Barclay, a famous athlete, who offered to train and manage him and made him into the most celebrated pugilist of the day. His first match was against another great Bristol fighter, the one eyed Jem Belcher whose reputation was so high that the odds were six to four against Cribb. In fact Cribb beat him in just 35 minutes.

Cribb went on to beat two more opponents and when British champion John Gulley (another Bristolian) retired in 1808, Cribb was given the title. Belcher was outraged and challenged him to a rematch in 1809 but was again soundly defeated.

No one was prepared to take him on after that except a black American ex-slave called Thomas Molyneux. The fact that Molyneux was both coloured and foreign aroused interest even among people who normally ignored boxing and Cribb was portrayed as fighting for the honour of England and the English.

It was one of the hardest fights in Cribb’s career but he finally beat Molyneux in 1810 and again at a rematch the following year when Molyneux collapsed after 19 minutes. The rematch demonstrated that Cribb had become a superstar in the days when fortunes depended on the verdict.

A crowd of 20,000 travelled the 100 miles from London to see the fight, including most of The Fancy - the upper class boxing fans headed by the Marquis of Queensbury. The day after his victory, Cribb returned to London in a coach pulled by four horses decorated with blue ribbons and received a hero’s welcome. He was later presented with a valuable silver cup.

In 1812 at the age of 31, he announced his retirement and became a coal merchant. In six years, he fought 10 times and was only beaten once. For the next 15 years he sponsored and trained young fighters, including many Bristolians, acted as a second and gave exhibitions at sporting dinners. His coal business failed and he became a publican, but in 1814, after Napoleon had been defeated, he was chosen to demonstrate the skills of the pugilist before the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, three Prussian princes, the Prince of Mecklenburg and Waterloo co-victor Marshall Blucher.

In 1819 he took over the Union Arms in Panton Street, just off the Haymarket, which was later renamed the Tom Cribb in his honour. In January 1822, he was offered the title of ‘Champion for Life’ although he gave it up the following year to his prot'eg'e, Thomas Spring, In 1821, he joined other boxers dressed in heraldic tabards as a guard of honour at the coronation of George IV Some said they were there to protect the unpopular Queen Caroline from the mob.

He might have been a great boxer but he was inept with money and a soft touch for a handout. In 1839, he was declared bankrupt and retired to Woolwich to live with his son. His last public appearance was in December 1822, when he was seen at a benefit fight for William Perry, the Tipton Slasher.

Thomas died on May 11, 1848, aged 67 years, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s and St Andrew’s, Woolwich. The cause of death was said to be a stomach disease and exhaustion.

A subscription fund was opened for a memoriam and, in 1854, a Portland stone lion with its paw resting on the champion’s belt was erected in the church

Saint George the horsemen ring .

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Total weight 6.3 grams

Saint George (ca. 275/281 – 23 April 303) was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier and a priest in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic (Western and Eastern Rites), Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox churches. He is immortalized in the tale of Saint George and the Dragon and is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers that would intervene For the health of domestic animals. His memorial is celebrated on 23 April, and he is regarded as one of the most prominent military saints.