Tom Sjjring's Back Parlour. 25 



feeling letter in BelVs Life about liis last moments, and 

 told how he left life as he had lived — an honest Englishman, 

 As a proof of the great respect in which Tom Spring's 

 memory is held, when the trustees of Norwood Cemetery 

 gave notice, thirty years after Spring's death, that his 

 monument at Norwood Cemetery was becoming a dangerous 

 obstruction, for want of repair, it was handsomely restored 

 by public subscription, at a considerable cost — the first 

 subscribers being the present Duke of Beaufort, the late 

 Hon. Robert Grimston, and Sii' John Dugdale Ashley, 

 Bart. 



Spring's first appearance at the Fives Court must have 

 been some time before the Battle of Waterloo, as the friends 

 of Shaw, the immortal Life Guardsman, had made over- 

 tures to back their hero, on his return from Belgium, 

 against Spring. Shaw had fought and beaten Painter in 

 the April preceding the Waterloo campaign ; and at that 

 time Spring — who afterwards, in 1818, beat Painter, and 

 was beaten by him (his only defeat) in the same year — 

 had only appeared once in the Prize Ring for a small stake. 



