Domenico Angelo (1717–1802) by John Hall, pubd 1763 (after James Gwyn) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Angelo, Domenico (1717–1802)
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Angelo, Domenico [formerly Angiolo Domenico Maria Tremamondo] (1717–1802), fencing master
Malcolm Fare
Angelo, Domenico [formerly Angiolo Domenico Maria Tremamondo] (1717–1802), fencing master, was born on 6 February 1717 in the Italian seaport of Leghorn, the eldest of six brothers, sons of Giovanni Tremamondo, a merchant from Leghorn, and his wife, Catrina Angiola, née Malevolti...
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Angelo, Henry (1780–1852), fencing master
See Angelo, Domenico [formerly Angiolo Domenico Maria Tremamondo]
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Angelo, Henry Charles William (1756–1835), fencing master and memoirist
See Angelo, Domenico [formerly Angiolo Domenico Maria Tremamondo]
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Beaumont, Charles-Louis Leopold Alfred de [formerly Alfred Leopold Charles de Beaumont Klein] (1902–1972), fencer
Richard Cohen
Beaumont, Charles-Louis Leopold Alfred de [formerly Alfred Leopold Charles de Beaumont Klein] (1902–1972), fencer, was born at 26 Alexandra Drive, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, on 5 May 1902, the son of Louis Leopold Martial Baynard de Beaumont Klein (1849–1934) and his wife, Kathleen Mary O'Hagan (1876–1974)...
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Cooke, Sir (Ernest George) Stenson (1874–1942), secretary of the Automobile Association and fencer
P. W. J. Bartrip
Cooke, Sir (Ernest George) Stenson (1874–1942), secretary of the Automobile Association and fencer, was born Ernest George Cooke at 9 Shrubland Road, Haggerstone, London, on 5 October 1874, the second of the three children of Silas Cooke (1850–1925), a clerk who worked in a stationer's business and who later became a dealer in wine, and his wife, ...
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Cooke, Sir (Ernest George) Stenson (1874–1942)
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Sir (Ernest George) Stenson Cooke (1874–1942) by Howard Coster, 1937 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Godfrey, John [formerly John Godfrey Hanckwitz] (d. 1766?)
See Godfrey, Ambrose, the elder [known as Ambrose Godfrey Hanckwitz the elder]
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Haig, Dame Mary Alison Glen [née Mary Alison James] (1918–2014), fencer and sports official
Jean Williams
Haig, Dame Mary Alison Glen [née Mary Alison James] (1918–2014), fencer and sports official, was born on 12 July 1918 at 10 Alma Road, Islington, London, the only child of Captain William Charles James (1883–1955), an officer in the ...
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Hope, Sir William, first baronet (1664–1729), swordsman and writer
Malcolm Fare
Hope, Sir William, first baronet (1664–1729), swordsman and writer, was the son of Sir John Hope (d. 1661) of Hopetoun, Lanarkshire, and his second wife, Lady Mary Keith, the eldest daughter of William, seventh Earl Marischal. A passionate amateur swordsman, he was one of the most prolific authors on swordplay, writing between 1687 and 1724 five books that became the unrivalled authorities on their subject for more than fifty years. He was knighted by ...
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Hutton, Alfred (1839–1910)
Maker: John Ernest Breun
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Alfred Hutton (1839–1910) by John Ernest Breun, pubd 1889 [Cold Steel] © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Hutton, Alfred (1839–1910), swordsman
A. F. Sieveking
revised by Julian Lock
Hutton, Alfred (1839–1910), swordsman, born at Beverley, Yorkshire, on 10 March 1839, was eleventh and youngest child and seventh son of Henry William Hutton (1787–1848) of Walker Gate, Beverley, captain in the 4th (Royal Irish) dragoon guards (retired 1811). His mother was Marianne (...
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Knowles, Dorothy [Diana] (1906–2010), French scholar and fencing champion
Noël Peacock
Knowles, Dorothy [Diana] (1906–2010), French scholar and fencing champion, was born on 28 March 1906 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, the daughter of William Haigh Knowles (d. 1911), a Yorkshire-born mining engineer. Known to her friends and family as Diana, she came with her mother to ...
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McBane, Donald (1664–c. 1730), army officer and writer on swordsmanship
Malcolm Fare
McBane, Donald (1664–c. 1730), army officer and writer on swordsmanship, was the son of a farmer and publican near Inverness. Little is known of his background and life other than what appears in his colourful memoir The Expert Swordsman's Companion (1728). Aged twenty-three, ...
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Reynolds, (Edward) Osmund Royle (1933–2017), fencer and neonatal paediatrician
Alan Craft
Reynolds, (Edward) Osmund Royle (1933–2017), fencer and neonatal paediatrician, was born in Brighton on 3 February 1933, the only child of Edward Royle Reynolds (1887–1963), a solicitor in London, and his wife Edna, née Jones (b. 1902). His early years were spent in ...
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Roland, Joseph (d. 1816x20?), fencing master and writer
Malcolm Fare
Roland, Joseph (d. 1816x20
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Saviolo, Vincentio (fl. 1595), swordsman and writer on fencing
Stephen Wright
Saviolo, Vincentio (fl. 1595), swordsman and writer on fencing, was born in Padua. Nothing is known of his early life, but he recalls witnessing a quarrel in Slavonia (in the sixteenth century a vague term, denoting the Balkans) and may have travelled widely in ...
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Silver, George (fl. 1580–1599), swordsman and writer on fencing
Stephen Wright
Silver, George (fl. 1580–1599), swordsman and writer on fencing, was the eldest son of Richard Silver of Ropley, Hampshire, and his wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas West, one of the ramified West family of Sussex and Hampshire, of whom the barons De La Warr...
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Tredgold, Roger Francis (1911–1975), physician and fencer
Richard Cohen
Tredgold, Roger Francis (1911–1975), physician and fencer, was born on 23 October 1911 in Guildford, Surrey, the son of Alfred Frank Tredgold (1870–1952), physician, and his wife, Zoë Hanbury (d. 1947). He was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge...
