Members A | Belsize Boxing Club

MEMBERS: A (46)

Abbot, C.F.

1888 - middleweight boxer from 1st November.

Abinger, Edward Samuel

1882 - member from 28th September.
1887 - called to the Bar (Inner Temple) – 26th January.
1929 – died 28th March

Abplanalp, Major Victor Charles (see ‘The Belsize Boxing Club: the Toffs’ Institution that transformed boxing.’ pp. 288, 307)

1940’s/50’s light-heavyweight boxer.
Captain of the Army Officers Boxing Club.
1951 - Vice-Captain.
1979 – awarded OBE

Abrahams, Ian

1950’s middleweight boxer

Ackary, H.F.L.

Member

Ackary, R.F.

Member

Adams, F.W.

1892 - boxer from 3rd November.
Secretary and Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society

Adams, Terry A. A. (see ‘The Belsize Boxing Club: the Toffs’ Institution that transformed boxing.’ p. 432)

Light-middleweight boxer.
Oxford University ABC captain

Albertini, S.R.B.

Bowler for Berkshire C.C.C.
1910’s bantamweight boxer
Referred to in Memories” (page 203…"small, sturdy, indomitable..") by Harry Preston, 1928.

Aldrich, Lieutenant P.P.B.

Member

Allam, Hugh

1901 - Honorary member from 17th January.

Allam, W.S.

1901 - Honorary member from 14th March.

Allanson, K.E.

1930’s lightweight boxer

Allen, J.D.

1930s lightweight boxer

Allen, John B

1901 - boxer from 16th October.

Allen, W.

1889 - Honorary member from 10th October.

Allkins, Mike (see ‘The Belsize Boxing Club: the Toffs’ Institution that transformed boxing.’ pp. 310,312,315,378,477, (Amateur boxing record 497),579

1956 - Vice-Captain.
1959-62 - Captain
1959 - Awarded Belsize Spirit chain
1962 – 16 June - scored 22 runs - Dudley Savill hits six boundaries, and top scored for Belsize with 41 - as they lose to Cambridge University. (Their 63 runs represented 77% of the Belsize total!)
1964 – 29th August – Secretary
1965 Vice-President
2010 – 24 October – died.

Allum, Charlie (see ‘The Belsize Boxing Club: the Toffs’ Institution that transformed boxing.’ pp.219,220,225,264,268)

1876 - born 23rd April in Notting Hill. (Nephew of Ben Caunt).
He was the son of a cabman ‘champion of England’ and lived at 237 Lancaster Road.
1905 - he had a genuine claim to the British middleweight (10 stone 10 pounds limit) title.
1908 - the Blechynden Hall hosted a Charlie Allum benefit.
1900’s instructor.
He fought in the Boer War at the siege of Ladysmith.
1918 - killed in World War 1 on 21st July, aged 42.

Alston, I

1960’s light-welterweight boxer

Ambrose, Captain.

Served in WW1.

Anderson, Barry

1970s middleweight

Anderson, Ian Bruce

Non-boxing member.
Born 4 September 1905 in Southport, Lancashire.
Educated in St Paul's School in London.
Studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Thomas Meux (1924-27).
Made his operatic debut at Milan's Teatro Duse in 'Madame Butterfly". Back in England, he sang for various opera companies and in broadcasts, as well as in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet (New York).
Performed in South Africa in 1936 and in 1937 joined the South African Broadcasting Corporation, establishing a reputation as a producer of radio opera productions and as a solo and operatic singer.
On the outbreak of war, he joined the First South African Brigade.
He became the first South African to be awarded the OBE in recognition of his work as a war correspondent.
After the war he was on the staff of the South African Embassy in Rome (1945-47), where he resumed his singing career.
He become well known as an actor in a variety of theatre productions and was featured in the film of Alan Paton's 'Cry the Beloved Country'.
He was married to Erica Jolley.

Anderson, T

1900’s boxer

Andlaw, Peter

Gibraltan restauranteur, and schoolboy champion who trained with the Belsize BC.

Andrews, C

1894 - boxer from 8th November.

Angle, (Bernard John) 'Jack' (see ‘The Belsize Boxing Club: the Toffs’ Institution that transformed boxing.’ pp. 23,24,36,40,42,43

45,46,50,51,75,79,106-114,(Amateur boxing record 115-124),126,164,199,212,216,217,224,311,328,354,357

Captain of the Stock Exchange football team.
Rowed for Thames Rowing Club.
Played for Middlesex Rugby Union Club.
1876 - Captain of Wasps RFC - 1880 - a dashing forward, also a renowned amateur boxer and a famous boxing referee. (He was described by the periodical 'Figaro' in a February 1878 issue as 'a very `ugly customer' in a scrimmage, albeit a very presentable gentleman in a drawing-room').
Committee member of the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club.
Member of the Yacht Racing Association.
Founder member of the ABA.
1887 - ABA Treasurer -1905.
1887 – Belsize BC President – 13th October
1888 - ABA President.
1899 - Contributor to 'Stockbrokers and sport'. Gale & Polden.
1932 - died 8th April.

Annerson, Joe

1966 - boxer from 28th April.

Arbuthnot, Robert Keith (see ‘The Belsize Boxing Club: the Toffs’ Institution that transformed boxing.’ pp. 225,268-270)

1864 - born 23rd March
1897 - member from 14th October.
1890’s boxer.
A baronet.
1916 - died 31st May, aged 52.

Archer, G.V.

1900s middleweight boxer.
Served in WW1.

Arditchoglov, T.E.

1930’s middleweight boxer.

Ardy, G.H.

1895 - boxer from 3rd January.

Armitage, E. R. ’Buzz’ (see ‘The Belsize Boxing Club: the Toffs’ Institution that transformed boxing.’ pp. 273-274, (Amateur boxing

record 273-274),302)

1920’s lightheavyweight.
1941 - died on 10th December, while on HMS ‘Repulse’.

Armitage, Tony

1967 - middleweight boxer from 16th March.

Armstrong, H.D.

1894 - Honorary member from 11th October.

Armstrong, Sam

Aronson, N

1970 - member from 12th November.

Arzee, Jean

1895 - boxer from 31st January.

Askin, Julian

1968 - member from 2nd May.

Athar, L.N.

1960’s lightweight boxer.

Atherton, W

1893 - Honorary member from October 19th.

Atkins, H

1890 - Honorary member from 23rd October.

Atkinson, Albert

1967 - member from 5th January.

Atkinson, I.J.

1889 - Honorary member from 21st November.

Atlanson, A

1930’s lightweight boxer

Austin-Sparks, Colonel Ralph Harold, O.B.E. (see ‘The Belsize Boxing Club: the Toffs’ Institution that transformed boxing.’ pp. 270-271

Avis, H. Napper (see ‘The Belsize Boxing Club: the Toffs’ Institution that transformed boxing.’ p.226)

1900s boxer