page_title: Young Dutch Sam
section_title: Tragic life after boxing
hierarchical_section_title: Young Dutch Sam / Pro career / Tragic life after boxing
caption_attribution_description: English: The Marquess of Waterford (Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford) dressed in Eglinton armour
context_page_description: Young Dutch Sam was an English professional bare-knuckle boxer, who fought during the sport's "pioneer era". He was considered a bare-knuckle welterweight champion of England during his career, and was an inductee of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2002.
context_section_description: On 4 April of 1839, Young Dutch Sam was found guilty of assaulting a policeman, throwing him to the ground and landing upon him, at the Standard House in Piccadilly in London's Haymarket, breaking a bone in the policeman's shoulder according to one account.   Sam was sentenced to three months in prison.  At the time of the assault, he was in the company of Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford, also known as Lord Waldegrave and occasionally titled "The Mad Marquis", and the two were under the influence of alcohol. Lord Waldegrave, though not arrested at the time, was fined 5 pounds, and detained for attempting to obstinately rescue Sam from the policeman. The imprisonment led to a substantial decline in Sam's health.
  In 1840, Young Dutch Sam's residence was used to finalize the financial arrangements as specified by contract for the English championship fight between Ben Caunt and Nick Ward.
  Like several other boxers of his period, Sam opened and apparently owned a public house or pub when he retired, and had worked as a publican as early as 1826.
  Young Dutch Sam died at the age of 35 in 1843 after retiring from boxing around 1834.  His death occurred at his Public house or pub, the "Old Drury" on Brydges-street, in the upper class area of Covent Garden in the West London area.  The bar at which he died still stands today as the Nell of Old Drury, and is situated directly opposite the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Catherine Street.  Several reliable accounts state that Sam left a widow but no children.  He was believed to have operated his pub at this location for four years, apparently opening it around five years after his last fight.    According to a few accounts, including that of the Newcastle Weekly, the rapid decline of his health during the end of his boxing career and during his retirement was the result of excessive drinking with his high society aristocratic friends, many of whom followed his boxing, and patronized his boxing career.   His premature death at 35 was believed by a few accounts to be the result of multiple organ failure and lung disease, referred to as a "protracted pulmonary illness" in London's The Era.  His funeral was held on 12 November 1843  Like several other boxers of his era, he was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London's Borough of Brent.  The modern cemetery has a main entrance on Harrow Road.
caption: 3rd Marquess of Waterford
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