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The Lord Lonsdale Challenge Belt, commonly known as the Lonsdale Belt, is the oldest championship belt in British professional boxing. The 5th Earl of Lonsdale introduced the prize on behalf of the Na
The Lonsdale Belt
The original Challenge Belt design presented by the National Sporting Club 1909–1929
George Groves displays the Lonsdale belt presented by the BBBofC Picture is changed to a portrait of Lord Lonsdale, replacing the two boxers in the original version.
A statue of Jim Driscoll in Cardiff. Driscoll was the first boxer to win a Lonsdale Belt outright.
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, was an English peer and sportsman. He was president of Bertram Mills Olympia Circus and a vice-president of the RSPCA.
Lonsdale Belt
…The Lord Lonsdale Challenge Belt, commonly known as the Lonsdale Belt, is the oldest championship belt in British professional boxing. The 5th Earl of Lonsdale introduced the prize on behalf of the National Sporting Club (NSC), intending it to be awarded to British boxing champions. Arthur Frederick Bettinson…
1930 portrait by Sir John Lavery
Lonsdale wearing the undress uniform of the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry during the Imperial German Army manoeuvres of 1902
Lonsdale's racing colours by E & W Anstie Ltd cigarette card (1922)