ARMORUM ARCHIVE
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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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British politician, collector, and author connected with the documentation of Indian and Oriental arms and armour. His handbook for the India Museum became an important reference work for the study of South Asian weaponry and military material culture, making him relevant to the broader arms-history side of the database.
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English mathematician, engineer, and artillery writer whose works occupy an important place in early modern practical military science. `The Arte of Shooting in Great Ordnaunce` is a key text in the bibliography for artillery and ordnance practice, linking mathematical reasoning, service experience, and early technical print culture.
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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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