Daniel Mendoza Appreciation

01/05/2026

"How Daniel Mendoza invented the uppercut"
https://youtube.com/shorts/QeC2HmXQVQM

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01/04/2026

The remaining part of the Novo Cemetery within the grounds of Queen Mary, University of London, in Mile End.
Graves here date from 1887 in the top corner to 1904 in bottom right with odd 1918/21/28 amongst them.

22/03/2026

Direct descendant (6x great granddaughter) gets the winner and an earlier assist for the 2-1 win in Sydney 😍

22/01/2026

Daniel Mendoza is quoted in Elly Griffiths' fictional novel, The Frozen People. Chapter 4, page 27.

12/01/2026

Local football club exploring the art of boxing 😍🥊

04/01/2026

Watch from 1min56. Blue Plaque for two pugilists to be revealed May 2026.

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13/11/2025

No direct connection to Dan Mendoza other than a reasonably similar portrait but featuring Isaac Perrins and Tom Johnson, and a very similar style commemorative jug for Sam Scott and Granby.

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

10/10/2025

Daniel Mendoza – a short story, written by Rennie, in the voice of Esther, Dan's wife, talking to daughter Matilda.

What are you doing with that jug, Matilda? Put it down. Carefully. Haven’t I told you never to touch it. It was your father’s, all that I’ve got left of him now. Yes, I know there’s a picture of your father on it.

This is a famous jug. Your father was a famous man. Yes, he was. All you can remember is him being the landlord here in an East End pub, and how grumpy he got sometimes, and how he could be a bit rough. He grew up on the streets of Whitechapel, sticking up for himself when people called him a dirty Jew. Never one to back down, your father, always standing up for himself. That’s how he got started boxing.

Yes, he really was a boxer, a famous one, the best of his generation, some people said. I hated it. Bare knuckles, no rules. Sometimes the fights would go on for two hours. I used to go and watch him fight, when we were courting, before you were born, but boxing’s no place for small children.

Anyway, this jug. It shows your father’ most famous fight. Look, there’s his name, and his opponent, Dicky Humphries and the date 1788. Dicky used to be your father’s friend, but they fell out. Used to brag he could beat your father, one hand behind his back. The picture doesn’t show the most important bit. Ten thousand people came to watch. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York and they bet £40,000. Your father slipped, sprained his ankle, had to withdraw. The fight made him famous. In all the papers. Of course there had to be a rematch. Dicky never beat him again.

Suddenly everyone wanted to know him. We had it made. We had money. He met the King. The world was at our feet.

But he was hopeless with money, never could keep hold of it. And he had a short fuse. Well, you know that. “Your own worst enemy,” I used to say. “Don’t know when to keep your mouth shut and your hands in your pockets.”

He did time. Put in prison when he hit the woman next door, thought she was calling me names. He wasn’t popular after that. A full-grown man, a boxer, hitting a woman. That’s when we took over the pub. Funny, he always thought the Prince of Wales would drop in for a pint one day, as if he’d be seen dead in Whitechapel. But I loved your father, and this jug shows him how I like to remember him, famous, respected, his greatest success, even though he lost that fight.

30/09/2025

Published in Bell's Life in Sydney, and Sports Review
Sat 6 Dec 1845

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59765356/5326950

09/09/2025

Interesting article about our cousin Peter, and includes an accurate summary on the connection to Daniel ("first cousin four times removed")

The great comedian, who would have turned 100 this year, lived at a time when performers were more discreet about their Jewishness.