Following the name of the champion(s): Indicates the number of times the competitor has held that title at that point.
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Title was held or changed hands no later than this. In these cases, it is known that a competitor held the title at a certain time but not when he/she won it.
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Order uncertain. Different titleholders may be known for the same year, for example, but it is not known who held the title before whom.
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Unofficial or disputable claims. These are usually matches that certainly took place, but where there is doubt that the competitor shown should be recognized as a true title holder. These listings are also italicized.
Defeats Jem Stevens and claims English 112lbs title; also defeats George Corfield on 95-05-27 for the 110lbs title.
Pedlar Palmer
1895-11-25
London, ENG
Defeats Plimmer and is also awarded the world 112lbs "bantamweight" title by NSC; competes at 116lb by 96-10.
Jack Walker
1897-11-01
London, ENG
Defeats Johnny Thomas for the vacant English 7st12lbs (110lbs) title.
Owen Moran
1903-05-25
London, ENG
Defeats Walker for the 112lbs title; loses to Digger Stanley on 03-11-09 but no title is mentioned on the newspaper articles; Moran is still listed as the 8st champion while Stanley is billed as 7st12lbs (110lbs) champion as of 03-11-18 (Sporting Life); moves up to the bantamweight class in by 04-10.
Jim Kenrick
1905-02-27
London, ENG
Defeats Boyo Driscoll for English 8st (112lbs) title; still champion as of 05-11-27.
Alf Sparrow
1893-01-30
London, ENG
Defeats Bill Bradfield on 93-01-30 to claim the 110lb title
Jack Walker
1902-10-22
London, ENG
Defeats Jim Kenrick for the 7st 12lbs (110lbs) title; also defeats Ernie Moody on 02-12-22 in London, ENG for the world 7st 12lbs title.
Digger Stanley
1903-03-02
London, ENG
Wins the world and English titles; defeats the 110lbs champion Owen Moran 03-11-09 but no title is mentioned on the newspaper articles; Moran is still listed as the 8st champion while Stanley is billed as 7st12lbs (110lbs) champion as of 03-11-18 (Sporting Life).
Sid Smith
1911-12-04
London, ENG
Defeats Joe Wilson and is awarded the Lonsdale belt; vacates on 13-01-24 due to illness (Staffordshire Sentinel, 13-01-25); Bill Ladbury and Johnny Hughes are scheduled to fight for the title on 13-03-10 but Hughes forfeits the opportunity after losing to Johnny Best on 13-02-17.
Sid Smith [2]
1913-02-24
London, ENG
Defeats Sam Kellar in the match billed as being for the title (London Daily News, 13-02-25); also wins the world and European titles on 13-04-11.
Wins the world, European, and British titles; vacates the British Title in 14.
Tancy Lee
1915-01-25
London, ENG
Defeats Jimmy Wilde.
Joe Symonds
1915-10-18
London, ENG
Jimmy Wilde
1916-02-14
London, ENG
Vacates in 18(?).
Elky Clark
1924-03-31
London, ENG
Defeats Kid Kelly; retires due to an eye that severely damaged during a match on 27-01-21.
Johnny Hill
1927-05-30
London, ENG
Defeats Alf Barber; passes away on 29-09-27.
Jackie Brown
1929-10-13
W. Bromwich, W. Midlands, ENG
Defeats Bert Kirby.
Bert Kirby
1930-03-03
London, ENG
Jackie Brown [2]
1931-02-02
Manchester, Lancashire, ENG
Benny Lynch
1935-09-09
Manchester, Lancashire, ENG
Declared vacant on 38-06-29 when Lynch vacates his world title due to exceeding weight limit for the title defense against Jackie Jurich.
Jackie Paterson
1939-09-30
Glasgow, SCT
Defeats Paddy Ryan; also wins British Empire Title on 40-03-11 and world title (lineal and NBA) on 43-06-19 but is stripped of the NBA title on 47-07-31.
Rinty Monaghan
1948-03-23
Belfast, NIR
NBA world champion, wins lineal world, British Empire, and British titles; vacates his titles on 50-04-02 upon retirement
Terry Allen
1951-06-11
Leicester, Leicestershire, ENG
Defeats Vic Herman.
Teddy Gardner
1952-03-17
Paisley, SCT
Also wins the vacant British Empire Title; vacates British Title in 52-09.
