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British cavalry officer, writer on horsemanship and later geological controversialist. Colonel George Greenwood published A Cavalry Sword Exercise in London in 1840.
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British army officer and Lord Mohun’s second in the fatal 1712 duel with the Duke of Hamilton. A published letter bearing his name gives an account of the events; the Folger catalogue notes that a manuscript annotation attributes its composition to another London writer.
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Scottish lawyer, public prosecutor, antiquary and historian of medieval Scottish law. His 1890 Trial by Combat remains a substantial study of judicial battle in Britain.
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English journalist, novelist, poet, art critic and popular historian. George Walter Thornbury wrote the first biography of J. M. W. Turner and the opening volumes of Old and New London, which include historical references to duelling.
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British major and military-instruction author identified on the 1890 Chatham manual Physical Drill with Arms. Available evidence does not safely expand the initials or establish life dates.
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British antiquary and seventeenth Viscount Dillon, recognised as a leading historian of arms, armour and medieval costume. He also served as trustee and chairman of the National Portrait Gallery and president of learned antiquarian bodies.
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Scottish fencing teacher, elder brother of the poet Robert Fergusson, and author of the 1767 Dictionary explaining the terms, guards and positions used in small-sword fencing.
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English historian and largely self-educated scholar. Henry Thomas Buckle sought general laws of social development in his influential but unfinished History of Civilization in England.
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English Nonconformist minister, theologian and hymn writer whose 1726 moral treatise against self-murder also condemns duelling and related practices.
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English historian, biographer, essayist and novelist. His 1889 historical novel The Two Chiefs of Dunboy contains the duel episode for which it entered the fencing bibliography.
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Scottish-born British political writer and educationalist. His three-volume Political Disquisitions (1774–1775) argued for political reform and included discussion of duelling.
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British mariner, traveller, journalist, author, reform campaigner and member of Parliament. James Silk Buckingham advocated press freedom and social reform and argued for legislative action against duelling.
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