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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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British journalist and compiler of reference works, best known for the Dictionary of Dates.
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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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French-born English army officer, courtier and diplomat who became 2nd Earl of Feversham. The fencing bibliography attributes to him a late-seventeenth-century manuscript exercise for the King’s dragoon regiment.
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British woman writer on fencing whose illustrated contribution titled Fencing appeared in the Badminton Magazine. The abbreviated middle name and uncertain life dates are retained pending stronger authority evidence.
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British Indian Army artillery officer and colonial administrator. As Colonel M. J. King-Harman he lectured at Simla on Officers and Their Weapons on 16 June 1892.
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English novelist, short-story writer and traveller who contributed to The Idler’s 1894 round-table discussion “Duels and Duelling”.
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Gymnast and fencing master active in London. His 1827 French manual joined gymnastics and fencing; in 1832 he published in English as Peter Gustavus Hamon, professor of gymnastics.
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English Church of England priest, historian, antiquary, and prolific writer on local history, folklore, customs, games, and village life. Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs first appeared in book form in 1891.
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British barrister, antiquary and philanthropist who served as keeper of the Ashmolean Museum; author of an essay on the motives of war with a paper on duelling.
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British physical-culture instructor and strongman identified on his book only as Professor Harrison. His illustrated manual covers Indian clubs, dumb-bells and sword exercises and circulated in several editions in the 1860s.
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English moralist and Cambridge scholar. His prize-winning A Dissertation on Duelling was published at Cambridge in 1784.
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