Most of the London fragments of the codex were deciphered and published by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1857 ; the rest of the codex with the Bristol fragments were deciphered by F. W. Gotch in 1881.

Architect Lawrence Gotch of E. and W. S.

* 1917 – Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler ( b. 1878 )

This details his links with Henry Scott Tuke and Thomas Cooper Gotch and many others who settled in the artists ' colony in the 1880s and 1890s.

At the time, pro wrestling consisted primarily of mat grappling ; and while the sport had flourished a decade earlier under Frank Gotch, the fans had since grown tired of the painfully deliberate pace of the bouts.

South of Humboldt is Frank A. Gotch County Park.

It is named for Frank Gotch, a world-champion, undefeated wrestler from Humboldt.

The Byrne Sieberlings ( 1920-30's ) sponsored by the J. P. Byrne Tire Company featured some of Central New York's greatest semi-pro ball players: George & Oscar Dear, Tommy Allen, Andy Burns, Henry " Dutch " Dotterer Sr, Don Miller ( 1927 NY Yankee ), Vic Hanson ( SU All-American ,) " Gotch " Carr, Louis " Doc " Morgan.

At the urging of noted " shooter " Karl Gotch, Inoki attempted to slap a real submission hold on the World Champion and make him quit.

According to the legend, teamster named Adams and some prospectors in Arizona were approached by a Mexican Indian named Gotch Ear, who offered to show them a canyon filled with gold.

Frank Alvin Gotch ( April 27, 1878-December 16, 1917 ) was an American professional wrestler of German ancestry, the first American to win the world heavyweight free-style championship, and credited for popularizing professional wrestling in the United States.

The son of Frederick Rudolph and Amelia Gotch, Gotch was born and raised on a small farm three miles south of Humboldt, Iowa.

Gotch wrestled his first match against Marshall Green in Humboldt on April 2, 1899, and won.

Gotch held his own for nearly two hours, but lost the hard-fought contest.

On December 18, 1899, Gotch challenged another former American Champion, " Farmer " Martin Burns, losing in 11 minutes, but impressing Burns as well, who offered to train Gotch.

Under the guidance of Burns, Gotch won a series of matches in Iowa and later Alaska.

During his time in Alaska, Gotch tried his hand at boxing, but failed miserably against the heavyweight Frank Slavin.

Frank Gotch vs. Georg Hackenschmidt at Comiskey Park

Gotch returned to Iowa and instantly challenged the reigning American Heavyweight Champion, Tom Jenkins.

Gotch lost their first match in 1903, before defeating Jenkins in a rematch on January 27, 1904, to take the championship.

After trading the title with Jenkins and Fred Beel, Gotch set his sights on the World Heavyweight Championship, then held by the undefeated Georg Hackenschmidt.

Gotch and Hackenschmidt finally met on April 3, 1908, at the Dexter Park Pavilion in Chicago.

Showing his contempt for Gotch and for American wrestling in general, Hackenschmidt was not in the best condition.

Gotch was.

The wrestlers stood on their feet for two full hours before Gotch was able to get behind Hackenschmidt and take him down.

As undisputed free-style heavyweight champion of the world, Gotch spent the next three years establishing his dominance over the sport, defeating the likes of Jenkins, Dr. Ben Roller, and Stanislaus Zbyszko, who was believed to have won over 900 matches before falling to Gotch on June 1, 1910.

The victory over Zbyszko was particularly spectacular, Gotch taking both falls in slightly less than half an hour, and thoroughly dominating his European opponent.

" If there was a knee injury, Gotch discovered it quickly and took advantage of it.

The Russian Lion was easy prey for Gotch, losing in straight falls in only 30 minutes.

Gotch competed in an era when a championship wrestling match was the same as a championship prize fight: i. e., it was a major event for which the wrestlers went into training and which promoters publicized for weeks.

Gotch was, by all accounts, a superior wrestler possessing tremendous strength, lightning quickness, genuine agility, cat-like reflexes, impeccable technique, superb ring generalship, a mastery of the use of leverage, and a full knowledge of wrestling holds, counterholds and strategy.

Gotch was among the first elected to the Iowa Sports Hall of Fame and was the first inductee to both the Professional Wrestling Writers Hall of Fame in Latham, New York and the Lou Thesz / George Tragos Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in Waterloo, Iowa.

When Lou Thesz was just starting out in the early 1930s, there were a good many wrestlers still active who had known Gotch and were not reluctant to talk about him.

“ The picture that emerged of Gotch from those conversations ,” Thesz recalled, “ was of a man who succeeded at his business primarily because he was, for lack of a kinder description, a dirty wrestler.

One of the old-timers I met was a fine man named Charlie Cutler, who knew Gotch very well and succeeded him as world champion …; according to Cutler, Gotch would gouge, pull hair and even break a bone to get an advantage in a contest, and he was unusually careful to have the referee in his pocket, too, in case all else failed .”

After a year of health troubles, Gotch died in 1917 of what was rumored to be syphilis, but the official cause of death was uremic poisoning.

Following his second defeat at the hands of Gotch, upon returning to England Hackenschmidt was preparing for a match with Stanislaus Zbyszko to take place the following June, but when he began working out he felt such pain in his right knee that it was painful even to walk.

Referee Ed Smith, following the 1908 match, said that “ deep down in my own mind, I decided that George Hackenschmidt had quit – quit quite cold, as a matter of fact – because there was nothing about Gotch ’ s treatment of him in that first encounter that could by a stretch of the imagination call for a disqualification.

The following year, he scored heralded victories over Dr. Ben Roller and “ the Terrible Turk ” Youssuf Mahmout, thus confirming his reputation among the world ’ s elite grapplers while also setting up a huge second encounter with Gotch at the Chicago Coliseum on June 1, 1910 for the undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.

He became a physician that year and received further education from Christian Bohr ( 1855-1911 ) in Copenhagen, Ernst Leopold Salkowski ( 1844-1923 ) in Berlin, Georges Dreyer ( 1873-1934 ) and Francis Gotch ( 1853-1913 ) at Oxford.

Plan of the manor from The Growth of the English House by John Alfred Gotch, 1909

* South-west elevation of the lodge, drawn by JA Gotch, 1882

" Hackenschmidt later reversed his opinion of Gotch and Americans in general, claiming to have been fouled by Gotch and victimized in America, and calling for a rematch in Europe.

But in America Tom Jenkins had been rather easily beaten by Hackenschmidt, so there was no American to capture the nation ’ s fancy until Gotch ; and none of the other great wrestlers had either the amazing physical attributes or the gift for self-promotion that Gotch possessed.

In addition, a film company currently holds the rights to the book Gotch: An American Hero, by Mike Chapman, and is actively in the process of making a movie based on the book.

He then sailed to America to fulfill his obligation to meet a new challenger from Iowa by the name of Frank Gotch.

Although he at first called Gotch " the greatest man by far I ever met ," and explained how his muscles had become stale and his feet had given out, and that he knew he could not win and therefore conceded the match, Hackenschmidt later reversed his opinion of Gotch and Americans in general, claiming to have been fouled by Gotch and victimized in America, and calling for a rematch in Europe.

Tresham gifted the Market House to the town, of which he was Lord of the Manor, but although work started in 1577 it would be 300 years before it was finished by local architect J A Gotch.

The Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering, designed by John Alfred Gotch opened on 31 July 1913.

They formed a promotion called Pancrase, named by ’ 60s wrestling star Karl Gotch after the sport of Pankration in the ancient Olympics, which combined all different forms of fighting into one sport.

As suggested by Karl Gotch, Pancrase was formed by Funaki, Suzuki and Fuke, and the promotion would focus on pure shoot-style wrestling with limited gimmicks and no predetermined outcomes.