John Harvey sometimes Jack Harvey (1884-????) from

Stoke on Trent Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of . In 2019, the city had an estimated population of 256,375. It is the largest settlement ...

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was a British professional road racing cyclist in the 1900s and 1910s. He held the

National Cyclists' Union The National Cyclists' Union (NCU) was an association established in the Guildhall Tavern, London, on 16 February 1878 as the Bicycle Union. Its purpose was to defend cyclists and to organise and regulate bicycle racing in Great Britain. It merged ...

, 25 mile title in 1909 and was the English Champion for the one mile distance, in 1910.

Titles Held

* English NCU Champion (25 Miles) 1909, Open to the World * English AAA Champion (25 Miles) 1911 * English AAA Champion (1 mile and 5 miles) 1910 * Northern Champion (1/2 mile and 1 mile) 1911 * Northern Champion (1/2 mile and 5 miles) 1910 * Midland AAA Champion (1/2 mile) 1911 * Midland NCU Champion (1/4 mile) 1908 * Midland NCU Champion (25 miles) 1909

Personal life

Between 1910 -1913, he ran a pub called Old Blue Post Hotel in Stafford. He served in the Army in 1915 aged 31.

References

Year of death missing British male cyclists Sportspeople from Stoke-on-Trent British Army personnel of World War I {{England-cycling-bio-stub