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William Weller	William Weller BFC (Bare Fist Champion)

[From: JAC Weller]

"My father lived in Amersham for more than six years beginning in 1893. His grandfather; William Weller 1797 (Bare Fisted Champion) was still very much a subject of conversation in the little town when he was a boy.

Daddy's grandfather who entered the Navy as a midshipman about 1810 was bare fisted champion of the Channel Fleet sometime between Waterloo and his leaving the service about 1820. The Channel Fleet would not have been as big in the years after Waterloo as it was before that battle, but it's probable that the fleet did not shrink into insignificance for several years. The things that I have heard of William BFC would indicate a man of slightly more than six feet tall carrying in his best physical condition perhaps 15 or 16 stone (210 - 224 pounds). He only lived to be 62. Daddy said that in later life he put on "quite a bit of weight". This did not hamper him however in his weekly sparring sessions with the blacksmith. There were stories of his physical prowess into middle life, some believable and some not."

[Extract of the will of William WELLER of Amersham, Brewer, Maltster and Farmer, 31 May 1859. From R.M.Weller]
“First I direct that all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses other than and except the debt to the Executors of my late partner Mr Edward Weller secured to him by way of mortgage upon certain parts of my Brewery property which is to be paid by the persons entitled to my residue..... My son Henry... And it is my will and I direct the trustees for the time being of this my will to stand possessed of the sum of One Thousand pounds apiece and the several annual sums of forty pounds and forty pounds apiece for my several sons Charles John James and Frederic and every other son of mine to be born ...My real and personal Estate and Effects in trust for my three sons William Edward and George ... It is my will and desire that my trustees shall carry on and prosecute my said trades and businesses of Brewer Maltster and Farmer as fully and effectually to all instants and purposes as the said trades and businesses are now carried on by me until the youngest of my three sons William Edward and George shall attain his age of twenty one years ... I do appoint my son William Weller and the said Benjamin Arthur Brickwell to be Executors and Trustees of my said Will ... and also Guardians of my said children during their respective minorities ...”