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 THE ANGELO FAMILY EDWARD ANTHONY AxgeLo, who received a direct com mission from H.R.H. the Duke of York. He had a most distinguished and varied career which the reader wll find fully detailed in The Ancestor. He was born in or about the year 1787, and was gazetted an Ensign in the 28th Regiment on July 9th, 1803. He made a famous though a disastrous runaway match with Pauline, a daughter of the Marquis de Choiseul, on July 11th, 1816. He died a Knight of Windsor on August 26, 1869, aged about eighty. Colonel Edward Anthony Angelo had a son, Edward Augustus Angelo, who was gazetted to the 10th Foot on January 15th, 1845, but he threw up his commission, and I know not what became of him. There were also three daugh- ters, Georgina, Matilda, and Bertha Angelo, who are, I hear, living in Paris. The fourth and last son of our Henry Angelo I. was WilliaM HENRY ANGELo. Since he died on January 19, 1855, aged 66, he must have been born in or about the year 1789. He is said to have married a lady named Cope, and to have had issue another William Angelo. Of his career all we know is that for a time he was settled at Oxford, where he kept a fencing school. Subsequently he became the manager of his brother's and nephew's fencing academy, in St. James' Street. He is the Old William" whom many will still remember, an excellent master of fence, even to the last, when, in consequence of an injury, his weapon had to be bound to his hand. His will at Somerset House is dated August 22nd, 1840, and it was proved March 2nd, 1855. In it he styles himself “William Angelo, otherwise William Henry Angelo, formerly of Oxford, and of 21, Hill Street, Westminster, fencing- XxIx