Tom Hickman [The Gasman]

(1795 c.-1822)

LBT ID: ThHickm1822	B/BAP: 1795 DIED: 1822-12-10
SOURCES: Sporting Magazine (December 1822) 174-75; boxrec.com
English prizefighter who died at the height of his career when the chaise he was driving overturned when returning from a fight.
REFERENCES TO Tom Hickman [The Gasman]: Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt X Found 1: ¶ 10 William Hazlitt XII Found 1: ¶ 10 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VII 1822-23 Found 1: ¶ 28 Ch. VIII 1822 Found 6: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 10 ¶ 14