Bill Neate

• Pioneer bare-knuckle boxer, whose trade was a meat butcher
• Also known as "The Bristol Bull" and "Bristol Butcher"
• Last name sometimes spelled "Neat"

Neat, Bill, born 1791, wt. 13st., 7lb.,
b. Oliver, 100gs., 91m., 28r., Rickmans-worth, July 10, 1818;
b. Gas, 100gs., 23½m., 18r., Newberry, December 11, 1821;
bn. by Tom Spring.
Died March 23, 1858, at Bristol.

Source: Famous Fights-Past and Present - No. 058