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British art historian, author and museum director who led the National Gallery of Ireland. Walter Armstrong also wrote on sport and supplied the wrestling contribution to the 1890 volume Fencing, Boxing and Wrestling.
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English writer, poet, lecturer, journalist and editor of the Saturday Review. Walter Herries Pollock was also a prominent amateur fencer and contributed to the Badminton Library volume Fencing, Boxing and Wrestling.
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English Royalist courtier, soldier, author and celebrated authority on horsemanship. William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, also wrote on honour and swordsmanship; his fencing manuscript The Truth of the Sorde survives as British Library Harley MS 4206.
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British periodical contributor identified by the abbreviated byline A. Andrew in the fencing bibliography. The linked article on eighteenth-century duelling appeared in volume 103 of The New Monthly Magazine in 1855.
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British author of an early nineteenth-century treatise on duelling, chivalry, ordeal, and judicial combat. His work is part of the antiquarian and moralizing literature that surveyed the duel historically while also addressing its continued social relevance in the modern gentlemanly world.
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English nobleman, courtier and tournament participant who fought Antoine, Bastard of Burgundy, in a celebrated 1467 Smithfield combat before Edward IV.
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English Renaissance playwright, poet and actor, especially associated with the comedy of humours. The catalogue entry points to William Gifford’s 1816 collected edition and its indexed discussion of duelling.
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British librarian, publisher, language-guide writer and bibliographer. Carl Albert Thimm compiled one of the most extensive nineteenth-century bibliographies of fencing, duelling, swords and bayonet practice.
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English antiquarian draughtsman and printmaker who specialised in accurately recording medieval monumental sculpture and costume. Charles Alfred Stothard began issuing The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain in parts in 1811; the project was completed after his death.
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British jurist and legal reformer influenced by Jeremy Bentham. Charles Hay Cameron worked on commissions concerning judicial procedure, charity and poor law, later serving in Ceylon; he also published an essay on duelling.
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London printer, member of the Royal Westminster Volunteers and author of The Art of Defence on Foot, an influential broad-sword and sabre manual first published in 1798.
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Scottish philosopher and historian; the posthumous essay on suicide belongs to his corpus.
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