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British explorer, translator, soldier and author of works on swordsmanship.
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British-naturalized writer and barrister, born on Saint Barthélemy, whose wide-ranging historical and social works included The Romance of Duelling and The Gaming Table.
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Scottish fencing master, gymnast, educator and proprietor of the Oxford Gymnasium. His system of physical education and military gymnastics helped shape organised physical training in the British Army.
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Corporate military authority responsible for the official rifle, carbine and bayonet-training manuals represented in this catalogue.
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British-Canadian writer, traveller, big-game hunter and public official. He contributed the quarterstaff, bayonet and related self-defence material to the 1890 Broad-sword and Single-stick volume.
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British cavalry officer, bibliophile and collector specialising in horses, equitation and swordsmanship. He compiled the 1887 bibliographical record Works on Horses and Equitation and the 1890 catalogue of his specialist library.
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English jurist, legal historian and academic, later the third Pollock baronet. He was Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, founding editor of the Law Quarterly Review and a participant in the late Victorian revival of historical fencing.
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Unidentified author represented by the initials G. A., used for Pallas Armata (1639) and for the closely related Danish manual Den Ridderlige oc Adelige Fecht-Konstis (1646).
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British military author identified as Captain G. Sinclair of the 42nd Regiment and associated with manuals on broadsword, single-stick and cudgel play; one work appeared as by “A Highland Officer”.
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British military writer represented by two illustrated studies on fencing and the sabre published in the Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine.
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Fencing author identified on the 1822 London manual The Modern Art of Fencing as le Sieur Guzman Rolando; the work was revised by J. S. Forsyth and translated into Spanish in 1826.
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British barrister, all-round sportsman, member of the London Fencing Club and author of popular instructional works on fencing. Henry Arthur Colmore-Dunn also contributed fencing material to the Handbook of Athletic Sports.
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