accounts, against Mendoza himself. He published his second book, the autobiographical "Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza" in 1816. Though not well documented, Mendoza went on several exhibition tours through the British Isles, the most successful being those made in the summer of 1819. Mendoza made and spent a fortune. His memoirs report that he tried a number of ventures, including touring the British Isles giving boxing demonstrations, working as an actor, working in the oil and wine business, opening a boxing academy at the Lyceum in the Strand or government district of London, working as a recruiting sergeant for the army, and printing his own paper money. Final loss and death, 1836 He made his last public appearance as a boxer on 4 July 1820, one day short of his 56th birthday, at Banstead Downs in a grudge match against Thomas Owen, a Hampshire Innkeeper five years younger; Mendoza had not fought for 14 years. In need of money, he made a questionable choice, and was defeated by knockout after 12 rounds. According to several sources, he continued his work as an inn keeper and landlord, likely at the Admiral Nelson, in the later years of his life, and just before his death. Though intelligent, and charismatic, his life was chaotic, and the mismanagement of his earnings proved a fatal flaw. He died on 3 September 1836 at the age of 72, reportedly at his home in Horseshoe Ally on London's Pettycoat Lane, tragically leaving his wife Ester and family of eleven in poverty. He was initially buried in the Nuevo Sephardic Cemetery, a Jewish Cemetery near Mile End, now part of the campus of Queen Mary University of London and later reburied in Brentwood Jewish Cemetery in Essex, England. Pierce Egan, the author of Boxiana, a boxing history of the period, said of Mendoza that he was "a complete artist" and "a star of the first brilliancy." On the subject of race prejudice, Egan wrote, "In spite of his prejudice, he (the Christian) was compelled to exclaim—Mendoza was a pugilist of no ordinary merit." Egan further wrote "No pugilist whatever, since the time of Broughton (or even Broughton himself), has ever so completely elucidated, or promulgated, the principles of boxing as Daniel Mendoza". (Broughton was the first Englishman to write rules for the sport of boxing.) Boxing achievements and honours |- |- Halls of Fame In 1954