John Gully

[citation needed] Gully was visited in prison by a friend, Hen Pearce, a well-known prizefighter who was nicknamed "the Game Chicken" in bare-knuckle boxing circles.

[citation needed] On 8 October 1805, Gully was again matched against Pearce in a fight watched by the Duke of Clarence (later William IV of the United Kingdom) and numerous other spectators.

[1] The foremost prizefighting reporter of the period, Pierce Egan, recorded their battle of 14 October 1807:[2] Gully became the landlord of the Plough Tavern in Carey Street, London.

[1] In 1844 in partnership with John Day, Gully won the 2,000 Guineas with Ugly Buck, and two years later he took the Derby and The Oaks with Pyrrhus The First and Mendicant.

[citation needed] Gully is a real-life character in Royal Flash, one of George MacDonald Fraser's The Flashman Papers series of books.