death_date nationality name birth_date known_for article_title birth_name occupation
1943 english joe anderson 14 october 1869 ` all england ' boxing champion joe anderson -lrb- boxer -rrb-
 joseph anderson boxer
joe anderson -lrb- boxer -rrb-

joseph ` joe ' anderson -lrb- born 14 october 1869 , died 1943 -rrb- was a boxer who was ` all england ' champion in 1897 .
his parents were john anderson and his wife ann , née goddard , of bethnal green , in the east end of london , and then a working-class slum .
according to the 1891 census , he was living at 26 , crispin street , spitalfields , and working as a market porter .
he boxed as a lightweight .
on 24 april 1897 , at the ecelsior hall , bethnal green , he beat tom ireland to win harry wright 's ` all england ' 9st 8lbs -lrb- 134lbs -rrb- silver championship belt competition , over six rounds .
it was his second bout of the night , having earlier beaten jerry donoghue in a semi-final , with a knockout in the third round .
the belt 's value was quoted at the time as # 40 .
at the time of the 1901 census he and his wife nell had seven surviving children .
his last recorded fight was in 1907 .
the 1911 census shows the family living in a house in edmonton , north london - a much more up-market area .
he died in 1943 , aged 73 , and was buried without a headstone .
his silver championship prize belt , still in the possession of descendants of his son edward , was featured on an episode of the bbc television programme antiques roadshow , which led to anderson 's story being featured in the spin-off series antiques roadshow detectives in 2015 .
