HEMA Authors and Fencing Masters

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John Elliott

United Kingdom mid to late 19th century

British author of `The Art of Attack and Defence`, a practical fencing and self-defence manual that circulated in Victorian Britain. He belongs to the later nineteenth-century world in which fencing, military exercise, and civilian self-defence increasingly overlapped in compact instructional texts.

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John Yonge Akerman

United Kingdom 1806 - 1873

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Joseph Hamilton

United Kingdom 1829

British author of `The Only Approved Guide through All the Stages of a Quarrel`, a nineteenth-century handbook on duelling practice, honour culture, and the management of quarrels. He belongs to the later printed phase of duel literature, when codification, etiquette, and retrospective commentary increasingly replaced the technical sword treatise proper.

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Joseph Swetnam

United Kingdom 1617

English fencing writer and practitioner associated with the publication of `The Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence` (1617). The work combines technical teaching with moral and social discussion about quarrels, murder, honour, and the practical use of weapons.

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Joseph Timothy Haydn

United Kingdom ? - 1856

British journalist and compiler of reference works, best known for the Dictionary of Dates.

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Lawrence Ormerod Shaw

United Kingdom 1789 - 1851 1815-1836

English solicitor, local official, and occasional author whose `The Duel, a Satirical Poem` places him within the nineteenth-century literary response to duelling culture. He is relevant less as a martial technician than as a commentator working through satire and moral reflection on honour, conflict, and public behaviour.

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Robert Bell Calton

United Kingdom fl. 1852

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Robert Dudley

United Kingdom 1532 - 1588 1550s-1588

English courtier, statesman, soldier, and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, best known as the Earl of Leicester. In the present bibliography he appears not as a fencing master but as the issuing authority behind `Lawes and Ordinances Militarie`, which reflects his central role in Elizabethan military administration and campaign discipline.

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Robert Lucas Pearsall

United Kingdom 1795 - 1856

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Samuel White Baker

United Kingdom 1821 - 1893

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Sir Jonah Barrington

United Kingdom ? - 1834 1756/1757–1834

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Thomas Birch

United Kingdom 1705 - 1766

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