Alexander Ireland
Alexander "Alex" Ireland was a Scottish amateur and professional welter/middleweight boxer of the 1920s and 1930s, who was the 1921 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight champion. He also won a silver medal in the welterweight boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium losing to Canadian boxer Bert Schneider in the final, and the Scottish Area welterweight title, the National Sporting Club British middleweight title, British Empire middleweight title, and European Boxing Union middleweight title. He was a challenger for the Scottish Area middleweight title and his professional fighting weight varied from, i.e. welterweight to, i.e. middleweight. He was born in Leith.1920
