Alfred Hutton

Portrait of Alfred Hutton

Alfred Hutton (1839–1910) was a Victorian officer of the King's Dragoon Guards, antiquarian and swordsman. He originated the first English revival of historical fencing, together with his colleagues Egerton Castle, Captain Carl Thimm, Colonel Cyril Matthey, Captain Percy Rolt, Captain Ernest George Stenson Cooke, Captain Frank Herbert Whittow, Sir Frederick and William Pollock.

Works

• 1867, The Cavalry Swordsman
• 1887, Swordsmanship, for the use of Soldiers
• 1889, Cold Steel, a practical treatise on the sabre also on various other weapons of the present day including the short sword-bayonet or dagger,the constables truncheon,the great stick or staff and the French sword (small-sword)
• 1892, Old Swordplay – The Systems of Fence in Vogue During the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries, with lessons arranged from the works of ancient masters, based on Achille Marozzo's 1536 Opera Nova. This is more often known as Old Sword Ways.
• 1893, Our Swordsmanship, lecture at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall
• 1895, Notes on Ancient Fence, lecture at the Albany Club.
• 1897, Sword Fighting and Sword Play, The Indian Fencing Review.

See also

• George Silver
• Bolognese Swordsmanship

References

• Historical Fencing Studies – the British Legacy by John Clements, Association for Renaissance Martial Arts.

Wolf, Tony (2012). Ancient Swordplay: The Revival Of Elizabethan Fencing in Victorian London. Freelance Academy Press.

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