Winston Churchill, Fight Fan by Mark Hatmaker

This cartoon by the future Prime Minister was drawn when he was 17-years-old. It depicts Peter Jackson’s defeat of Frank Slavin at the National Sporting Club in London on May 30^th, 1892.

Churchill had offered the drawing “in lieu of debts incurred” to the Harrow School tuckshop [candy shop.]

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