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British historical writer, author of Annals and Legends of Calais (1852), a work reissued in a school edition in 1877; publisher advertisements also identify him as the author of Rambles in Sweden and Gotland.
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English courtier, statesman, soldier, and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, best known as the Earl of Leicester. In the present bibliography he appears not as a fencing master but as the issuing authority behind `Lawes and Ordinances Militarie`, which reflects his central role in Elizabethan military administration and campaign discipline.
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English barrister, composer and antiquary who lived for much of his adult life in Germany and Switzerland. Robert Lucas Pearsall combined musical activity with historical, heraldic and genealogical research, including a study of judicial duels in Germany.
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English churchman and royal clerk proposed as the probable author of Of Knyghthode and Bataile.
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English Romantic poet, historian, biographer, translator and essayist who served as Poet Laureate from 1813. Robert Southey developed particular expertise in Iberian and colonial history; his extensive notes and reading extracts were published posthumously as Southey’s Common-place Book.
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English poet and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His prize poem Duelling was printed at Cambridge in 1775.
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British explorer, naturalist, hunter, engineer and writer. Samuel White Baker travelled extensively in Africa and wrote The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, including observations on the Hamran sword hunters.
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British fencer, military-training enthusiast and long-serving secretary of the Automobile Association; he took part in Alfred Hutton’s historical-fencing group and competed at the 1912 Olympics.
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British Army officer of the Black Watch, veteran of Tel el-Kebir and later Inspector General of Gymnasia at Aldershot. He wrote on physical drill, bayonet exercise and military physical training.
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