{{Short description|Irish boxer (1894–1942)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Jimmy Magill | full_name = | image = | caption = | nationality = British (Northern Irish) | sport = Boxing | club = Royal Ulster Constabulary | birth_date = {{birth date|1894|12|31|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|2|8|1894|12|31|df=y}} | death_place = | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{NIR}}}} {{MedalSport | Men's Boxing}} {{MedalBronze| 1934 London | middleweight}} }} '''Jimmy Magill''' (31 December 1894 – 8 February 1942) was an amateur boxer and Royal Ulster Constabulary officer from Carncastle, near Larne in Northern Ireland.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/new-book-charts-rise-of-boxings-magill-brothers-28574674.html|title=New book charts rise of boxing's Magill brothers|date=6 December 2010|work=The Belfast Telegraph|accessdate=23 May 2013}}</ref>
==Biography== Magill was the Amateur Boxing Association of England's middleweight champion in 1934 and 1935 and light heavyweight champion in 1936.<ref>{{cite news |title=Amateur Boxing |work=Western Morning News |date=22 March 1934 |access-date=31 December 2021 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000329/19340322/088/0009| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He won fights in Boston and New York in an Irish tour of the US in 1935,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/2024560762.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+30%2C+1935&author=&pub=Daily+Boston+Globe+%281928-1960%29&desc=Canadian+Heavyweight+Stops+Flaherty+and+Hogan+to+Win+International+Honors+Before+11%2C000+Fans&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630041600/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/2024560762.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+30,+1935&author=&pub=Daily+Boston+Globe+(1928-1960)&desc=Canadian+Heavyweight+Stops+Flaherty+and+Hogan+to+Win+International+Honors+Before+11,000+Fans&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 June 2013|title=Canadian Heavyweight Stops Flaherty and Hogan to Win International Honors Before 11,000 Fans|last=Hurwitz|first=Hy|date=30 April 1935|work=Daily Boston Globe|page=22|accessdate=23 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yTsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=50wEAAAAIBAJ&dq=ireland%20boxer%20jimmy-magill&pg=2248%2C4212405|title=Yank Army Boxers in Irish Tournament|author=United Press|author-link=United Press|date=5 February 1942|work=The Pittsburgh Press|accessdate=23 May 2013}}</ref> was European Police champion from 1931 to 1936<ref name="Telegraph" /> and won a bronze medal representing Northern Ireland at the 1934 British Empire Games. As the Irish Amateur Boxing Association governed the sport in Northern Ireland, he was considered ineligible to compete for both Great Britain at the Olympics and Ireland at the Olympics.<ref name="Telegraph" /> In 1936, Magill defeated Richard Vogt, who as a German Army Captain in 1940 saved the life of an Irish Guardsman wounded in the Dunkirk evacuation because they both knew Magill.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-19164115.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323095405/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-19164115.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 March 2015|title=UK:Boxing: How a fight in the Ulster Hall saved a soldier at Dunkirk|date=21 July 2001|work=Belfast Telegraph|accessdate=23 May 2013}}</ref>
Magill was one of twelve children, and the youngest of seven brothers.<ref name="Telegraph" /> His brother '''Davy Magill'''{{anchor|Davy Magill}} was the 1921 Royal Irish Constabulary heavyweight champion, and later in the 1920s was Irish professional champion at heavyweight and light heavyweight.<ref name="Telegraph" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book |last=Magill |first=Paul |title=The Magills of the Meetinghouse, Cairncastle: Discovering the Story of an Irish Family |date=November 2010 |publisher=Shanway |isbn=9780956688507}}
==External links== * {{boxrec|39872|name=Dave Magill}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Magill, Jimmy}} Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland Category:Boxers at the 1934 British Empire Games Category:Male boxers from Northern Ireland Category:Royal Ulster Constabulary officers Category:Middleweight boxers Category:Light-heavyweight boxers Category:1894 births Category:1942 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Larne Category:Irish male boxers Category:Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games Category:Boxers from County Antrim Category:Police officers from County Antrim Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in boxing