Egerton Castle

For the castle in Kenya, see Lord Egerton Castle.

"He insists that his pen is mightier than his sword"
Castle as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in the magazine Vanity Fair, March 1905.

Egerton Smith Castle F.S.A. (12 March 1858 – 16 September 1920) was an author, antiquarian, and swordsman, and an early practitioner of reconstructed historical fencing, frequently in collaboration with his colleague Captain Alfred Hutton. Castle was the captain of the British épée and sabre teams at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]

He was born in London into a wealthy family; his maternal grandfather was the publishing magnate and philanthropist Egerton Smith.[2] He was a lieutenant of the Second West India Regiment and afterwards a captain of the Royal Engineers Militia. He was also an expert on bookplates and a keen collector.

Egerton Castle co-authored several novels with his wife, Agnes Sweetman Castle.

  1. ^ "Castle, Egerton". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 250.
  2. ^ "Castle, Egerton". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 306.