11 Facts About Henry Angelo

Henry Charles William Angelo was an English memoirist and fencing master, as a member of the Angelo family of fencers and son of the Italian master, Domenico Angelo.

Henry Angelo maintained his family's reputation, reissuing his father's seminal fencing manual and composing several memoirs and a single work on fencing, himself.

Henry Angelo was born to the Italian-born fencing master, Domenico Henry Angelo, and his wife, Elizabeth nee Johnson.

Henry Angelo grew up among four sisters and one brother, as the eldest child of the family.

Henry Angelo attended the school is Chiswick, then run by Dr William Rose, then moving to Eton College as of 1764.

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Shortly after assuming control, Henry Angelo moved the school's premises to Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket.

Henry Angelo specialised in cavalry swordsmanship, with his patrons including the London and Westminster Light Horse Volunteers.

In 1787, Henry Angelo reissued his father's L'ecole des armes, with fencing illustrations copied from Diderot's Encyclopedie, under the title The School of Fencing.

Henry Angelo did not settle during his final years of teaching, tutoring at around forty schools in total, before an injury by actor Edmund Kean in 1817 forced him into retirement.

Henry Angelo reminisced of his life in London's high society in two memoirs: The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo and Angelo's Pic Nic; or, Table Talk, ignoring discussion of fencing career for more conventional anecdotes, many of questionable veracity.

Henry Angelo published one original work on fencing, Hungarian and Highland Broadsword, illustrated with 24 watercolours by Rowlandson, many depicting Henry Angelo on horseback.