Thomas Belcher

(1783-1854)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Belcher, Thomas [Tom] (1783-1854) LBT ID: ThBelch1854	B/BAP: 1783 DIED: 1854-12-09
SOURCES: DNB
English prize-fighter; in 1821 he was among those selected by Gentleman John Jackson to guard the entrance to Westminster Abbey at the coronation of George IV.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Belcher: Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 November 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 8 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1808 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VII 1822-23 Found 1: ¶ 34 Ch. VIII 1822 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 5