List of British welterweight boxing champions

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List of British welterweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British welterweight championship. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1909, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of Control since 1929.

A champion may retire or voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship. Where a champion relinquished the title, the date of his final defence is shown with “(rel)” after it. If he did not defend his title, then “(rel)” is shown after the date at which he won the title.

Name	Duration of reign	Defences
Young Joseph	19 October 1908 — 23 January 1911	2
Arthur Evernden	23 January 1911 — 17 June 1912	1
Johnny Summers	17 June 1912 — 9 January 1914	3
Tom McCormick	9 January 1914 — 21 March 1914	2
Matt Wells	21 March 1914 (rel)	0
Johnny Basham	14 December 1914 — 9 June 1920	4
Ted (Kid) Lewis	9 June 1920 — 26 November 1924	3
Tommy Milligan	26 November 1924 (rel)	0
Hamilton Johnny Brown	8 October 1925 — 19 November 1925	1
Harry Mason	19 November 1925 — 31 May 1926	2
Jack Hood	31 May 1926 — 13 March 1933 (rel)	3
Harry Mason	11 June 1934 — 17 December 1934	1
Pat Butler	17 December 1934 (rel)	0
Dave McCleave	23 April 1936 — 2 June 1936	1
Jake Kilrain	2 June 1936 — 23 March 1939	2
Ernie Rodderick	23 March 1939 — 8 November 1948	5
Henry Hall	8 November 1948 — 15 November 1949	1
Eddie Thomas	15 November 1949 — 16 October 1951	2
Wally Thom	16 October 1951 — 24 July 1952	1
Cliff Curvis	24 July 1952 (rel)	0
Wally Thom	24 September 1953 — 5 June 1956	2
Peter Waterman	5 June 1956 — 17 December 1956 (rel)	1
Tommy Molloy	15 July 1958 — 1 February 1960	2
Wally Swift	1 February 1960 — 21 November 1960	1
Brian Curvis	21 November 1960 — 25 November 1965 (rel)	6
Johnny Cooke	13 February 1967 — 20 February 1968	2
Ralph Charles	20 February 1968 — 7 December 1971 (rel)	2
Bobby Arthur	31 October 1972 — 5 June 1973	1
John H Stracey	5 June 1973 (rel)	0
Pat Thomas	15 December 1975 — 7 December 1976	2
Henry Rhiney	7 December 1976 — 4 April 1979	2
Kirkland Lang	4 April 1979 — 1 April 1980	1
Colin Jones	1 April 1980 — 28 April 1981 (rel)	2
Lloyd Honeyghan	5 April 1983 — 6 December 1983 (rel)	1
Kostas Petrou	13 April 1985 — 18 September 1985	1
Sylvester Mittee	18 September 1985 — 27 November 1985	1
Lloyd Honeyghan	27 November 1985 (rel)	0
Kirkland Laing	14 March 1987 — 16 January 1991	4
Del Bryan	16 January 1991 — 20 February 1992	2
Gary Jacobs	20 February 1992 — 9 July 1992 (rel)	1
Del Bryan	22 September 1993 — 15 September 1995	4
Chris Saunders	15 September 1995 — 13 February 1996	1
Kevin Lueshing	13 February 1996 — 19 July 1997	1
Geoff McCreesh	19 July 1997 — 31 October 1998 (rel)	3
Derek Roche	10 April 1999 — 27 March 2000	3
Harry Dhami	27 March 2000 — 19 November 2001	3
Neil Sinclair	19 November 2001 — 1 February 2003 (rel)	3
David Barnes	17 July 2003 — 12 November 2004 (rel)	3
Michael Jennings	16 July 2005 — 28 January 2006	2
Young Mutley	28 January 2006 — 1 June 2006	1
Kevin Anderson	1 June 2006 — 2 November 2007	3
Kevin McIntyre	2 November 1993 — present	1