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Scottish soldier and adventurer, also known in Spain as Juan Downie. He served in the Peninsular War, commanded the Leal Legión Extremeña, and produced the 1814 Madrid collection of plates on attack and defence with the lance.
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English courtier and diplomat who served James I and Charles I as Master of the Ceremonies. His Paris letter of 1609/10 argued against duelling and was printed posthumously in 1720.
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English landowner, architect, engineer and author noted for promoting wrestling as physical education. Sir Thomas Parkyns systematised grappling practice in Progymnasmata: The Inn-Play, or Cornish-Hugg Wrestler, first issued in 1713 and expanded in 1727.
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English divine identified on A Discourse of Duels (1687) by the initials T. C., D.D.; the database also records the traditional expansion Thomas Comber, but the attribution remains explicitly qualified.
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English clergyman, historian, biographer and antiquary. Thomas Birch was a Fellow and secretary of the Royal Society, a trustee of the British Museum and an editor of major historical and biographical collections.
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Scottish essayist, historian, biographer and social critic whose writing strongly influenced Victorian intellectual culture. Thomas Carlyle treated early seventeenth-century German duelling in the historical essay Duelling 250 Years Ago.
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English Romantic essayist, critic, translator and journalist, best known for Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Thomas De Quincey wrote across literature, philosophy, history and public affairs; the linked collected works preserve his relevant discussions of violence and honour.
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British fencing author of The Modern Fencer, a concise foil manual issued by Frederick Warne in London in the 1860s.
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British biographer who prepared the two-volume life and correspondence of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe.
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English philosopher, political theorist and writer with strong interests in geometry, optics and mechanics. Thomas Hobbes applied geometrical reasoning to sword contact in the autograph treatise The Mathematical Demonstration of the Sword, presented to William Cavendish.
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English lawyer, judge, politician and author, best known for the school novel Tom Brown’s School Days, first published anonymously in 1857.
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Welsh-born Anglican clergyman, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and author of `A Sermon upon Duelling`, preached in 1791 and published in 1792. He belongs to the moral and academic literature surrounding the duel, representing the clerical and reformist critique of honour violence in late eighteenth-century Britain.
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