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Scottish gentleman and humanist author of the wide-ranging 1635 Varieties, whose sections include battles, duels and combats alongside natural philosophy and other subjects.
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Scottish soldier, fencing master, and autobiographical martial author best known for `The Expert Sword-Man's Companion`. His career joined military service, prize fighting, personal combat, and public instruction, making him one of the most vivid witnesses to the British martial world of the early eighteenth century.
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English barrister, champion rower, boxer, linguist and writer on sport and falconry. Edward Blair Michell contributed the boxing section to the Badminton Library volume Fencing, Boxing and Wrestling.
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English courtier, soldier and politician whose fatal 1613 duel with Edward Bruce, Lord Kinloss, is documented by contemporary letters and manuscript accounts.
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English clergyman, editor and compiler of educational, biographical, genealogical and topographical works. Edward Walford completed volumes three to six of Old and New London after Walter Thornbury.
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English antiquary, herald and astrologer whose collections founded the Ashmolean Museum. A manuscript text on the ancient procedure of duels before the king was printed posthumously in Brown’s Miscellanea Aulica in 1702.
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F. C. Grove is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Fencing, Boxing and Wrestling: Fencing by Walter H. Pollock, F. C. Grove and Camille Prévost; with a complete bibliography of the art by Egerton Castle; Boxing by Edward Blair Michell; Wrestling by Walter Armstrong” (1890). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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British soldier, diplomat, political adventurer, inventor and military writer, born Francis Macirone. Francis Maceroni served Joachim Murat and later proposed inexpensive defensive weapons and his foot-lancer system for volunteer forces.
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Scottish civil servant and writer associated with Kelloe. He is catalogued as author of the posthumously published 1826 Remarks on the late Trial of David Landale, concerning the fatal duel with George Morgan.
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Scottish humanist, poet, historian and royal tutor whose Latin paraphrases of the Psalms circulated widely across Europe. Duellum poeticum (1618) explicitly compares George Buchanan’s Psalm 104 paraphrase with that of George Eglisham.
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British statesman who served twice as foreign secretary and briefly as prime minister in 1827. His linked letters concern the political dispute that led to his 1809 duel with Viscount Castlereagh.
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Scottish physician and Latin controversialist who served as a royal physician and published Duellum poeticum in London in 1618. That volume staged a comparison between his paraphrase of Psalm 104 and that of George Buchanan.
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