List of British heavyweight boxing champions

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List of British heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British heavyweight championship, which has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1891, and the British Boxing Board of Control since 1929.

A champion will often voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship, such as the world or European. Where the date on which a champion relinquished the title is unclear, the date of his final defence is shown.

^r – Champion relinquished title.
^s – Champion stripped of title.

Name	Duration of reign	Defences
Jack Palmer	18 December 1905 — 29 October 1906	1
Gunner Moir	29 October 1906 — 19 April 1909	2
William Hague	19 April 1909 — 24 April 1911	3
Bombadier Billy Wells	24 April 1911 — 27 February 1919	14
Joe Beckett	27 February 1919^s	0
Frank Goddard	26 May 1919 — 17 June 1919	1
Joe Beckett	17 June 1919 — 14 May 1923^r	4
Frank Goddard	21 November 1923 — 18 March 1926	2
Phil Scott	18 March 1926 — 30 April 1926^r	1
Reggie Meen	16 November 1931 — 12 July 1932	1
Jack Petersen	12 July 1932 — 30 November 1933	3
Len Harvey	30 November 1933 — 4 June 1934	1
Jack Petersen	4 June 1934 — 17 August 1936	4
Ben Foord	17 August 1936 — 15 March 1937	1
Tommy Farr	15 March 1937^r	0
Len Harvey	1 December 1938^r	0
Jack London	15 September 1944 — 17 July 1945	1
Bruce Woodcock	17 July 1945 — 14 November 1950	2
Jack Gardner	14 November 1950 — 11 March 1952	1
Johnny Williams	11 March 1952 — 12 May 1953	1
Don Cockell	12 May 1953^r	0
Joe Erskine	27 August 1956 — 3 June 1958	2
Brian London	3 June 1958 — 12 January 1959	1
Henry Cooper	12 January 1959 — 7 November 1967^r	8
Jack Bodell	13 October 1969 — 24 March 1970	1
Henry Cooper	24 March 1970 — 16 March 1971	1
Joe Bugner	16 March 1971 — 27 September 1971	1
Jack Bodell	27 September 1971 — 27 June 1972	1
Danny McAlinden	27 June 1972 — 13 January 1975	1
Bunny Johnson	13 January 1975 — 30 September 1975	1
Richard Dunn	30 September 1975 — 12 October 1976	2
Joe Bugner	12 October 1976^r	0
John Louis Gardner	24 October 1978 — 26 June 1979^r	1
Gordon Ferris	30 March 1981 — 12 October 1981	1
Neville Meade	12 October 1981 — 22 September 1983	1
David Pearce	22 September 1983^r	0
Hughroy Currie	18 September 1985 — 12 April 1986	1
Horace Notice	12 April 1986 — 9 March 1988^r	3
Gary Mason	18 January 1989 — 6 March 1991	2
Lennox Lewis	6 March 1991 — 30 April 1992^r	2
Herbie Hide	27 February 1993^r	0
James Oyebola	19 November 1994 — 27 October 1995	1
Scott Welch	27 October 1995^r	0
Julius Francis	27 September 1997 — 13 March 2000	4
Michael Holden	13 March 2000^r	0
Danny Williams	21 October 2000 — 24 January 2004	5
Michael Sprott	24 January 2004 — 24 April 2004	1
Matt Skelton	24 April 2004 — 10 December 2005^r	3
Scott Gammer	16 June 2006 — 2 March 2007	2
Danny Williams	2 March 2007 — Present	0