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British or Irish general accountant and author of A General System of Attack and Defence, a short work on fortification first issued in 1804 and reprinted in 1808 and 1815. It is military literature, not a fencing manual.
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English novelist, playwright, translator, satirist and lexicographer. His comedy The Duellist premiered at Covent Garden in 1773 and appeared in three editions that year.
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English Anglican clergyman, moral philosopher and Archdeacon of Carlisle. His Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, first published in 1785, contains a discussion of duelling.
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English herald, officer of arms, court portraitist and antiquarian. Sir William Segar entered the College of Arms in 1585, later became Garter King of Arms and wrote Honor, Military and Civil, published in 1602.
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British politician, philanthropist and leading abolitionist; his 1797 Practical View includes a section condemning duelling within its critique of prevailing Christian morals.
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British fencing master known from The Fencer’s Manual, printed at Chatham in 1840. The first edition contains forty-seven pages and twelve numbered lithographic plates illustrating the principal parades.
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English author of `The English Master of Defence`, a wide-ranging early eighteenth-century manual covering smallsword, backsword, quarterstaff, and wrestling. He is relevant not only as a fencing writer but also as a representative of the broader British self-defence tradition that treated multiple weapons and unarmed play within a single practical framework.
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