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 THE ANGELO FAMILY Domenico's Christian names, " Angelo" appearing in its proper place ; (2) The complete absence of the name Tremamondo"; and (3) the fact that the child is named neither Angelo nor Tremamondo, but Malevolti. According to his baptismal certificate, in fact, Henry Angelo, afterwards under that name to be so widely known, was really Henry Charles William Malevolti. The name "Angelo" is nowhere-it was subse- quently assumed, as Malevolti was subsequently ignored. So characteristic an instance of the Angelo manner invites remark, and helps to explain many curious discrepancies According to his own account Henry's "godfathers were George III. (at that tiime heir apparent), the late Dukes of Cumberland, York, and Kent, and the Duke of Gloucester. Surely no child was ever ushered into the world with grander préstige ! He seems to have been intended for the Navy, and, as a matter of fact, he was actually enrolled by Captain Augustus Harvey, Lady Harvey's second son, on the books of the Dragon man-of-war in the capacity of midshipman, thereby becoming entitled at an extremely early age to some twenty- five guineas prize-money. Henry Angelo's first school was that of Dr. Rose, the trans- lator of Sallust, at Chiswick. Thence he was sent, in 1764, to Eton, where his father was fencing-master. From Eton, in 1777, in his seventeenth year, he went to Paris to study fencing under the renowned Motet, the champion pareur of the Continent, and to learn French. For a time he lived with M. Liviez, who had been a dancer and a ballet-master at Drury Lane. His wife was English, and he had fallen in love with her at the Percy Chapel in Charlotte Street, Soho. The lady was then a spinster no longer young, and M. Liviez was xxi