While he was an innkeeper at Patterdale

While he was an innkeeper at Patterdale

While he was an innkeeper at Patterdale, George Brunskill, the life guardsman, about the height of Wilson, and two stones heavier, was very anxious to try his skill with him. After much pressing, a friendly bout was consented to, on condition that Brunskill would be satisfied with one fall. The result was that Wilson "dud whack him;" the soldier being carried clean off "befooar he reetly kent whoar he was."

William Wilsonwhose brief, but distinguished career, has helped to confer an enduring lustre on the northern wrestling ringdied at Patterdale, in 1836, about forty years old, and was buried in Ambleside churchyard.

Source: Wrestlings and Wrestlers