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What’s New: September 2023

This month’s update, introduced by Hannah Smith, adds the lives of 22 people connected with equestrianism in modern Britain, including Dorothy Brooke, Marjorie Bullows, Eva Christy, Tony Collings, Ruby Ferguson, Maxwell McTaggart, Harry Faudel-Phillips, and Dorian Williams. Read the introduction.

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McTaggart, Maxwell Fielding (1874–1936), army officer, showjumper, and equestrian writer

Maxwell McTaggert

After retiring from the army, Maxwell McTaggart devoted his life to improving horsemanship in Britain. He was the leading British proponent of the ‘forward seat’ (as opposed to leaning back) when jumping, championed the astride seat for women, and advocated the foundation of what evolved to become the British Horse Society. 

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What's New: September 2023

This month’s update, introduced by Hannah Smith, adds the lives of 22 people connected with equestrianism in modern Britain, including Dorothy Brooke, Marjorie Bullows, Eva Christy, Tony Collings, Ruby Ferguson, Maxwell McTaggart, Harry Faudel-Phillips, and Dorian Williams.  

AUGUST 10, 2023

What's New: August 2023

This month’s update adds the biographies of ten new subjects, ranging from the tenth to the eighteenth centuries: Wulfrun; Engelard de Cigoné; Elizabeth de Vere, countess of Oxford; ‘The famous paynter Steven’; Emanuel van Meteren; Sir Henry Lello; Thomas Baker; Thomas Goodwyn; Edith Stedham; Urania Goodwyn. Read the introduction.

JULY 13, 2023

What's New: July 2023

This month’s update adds the lives of eleven women mainly active in science and literature: Sarah Frances Alleyne; Alice Blanche Balfour; Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne; Edith Ellen Humphrey; Nora Lang; Ethel Vaughan-Sawyer; Jane Sinnett; Maria La Touche; Catharine Weed Ward; Josephine Mary Ward; Doreen Wallace.  Read the introduction.