THE ANGELO FAMILY
Square Court (now Carlisle Street), from Lord Delaval. In this building, in 1763, he opened his fencing-school, and in the garden at the back he erected stables and a manège which extended to Wardour Street, and there, in Carlisle House, his children were born and there he resided till the day of his death. House and school soon became the resort of all the wealth and fashion of London. Here he took in his boarders, "young men of fashion," who paid him each one hundred guineas a year, and who spent their time in riding, fencing, and dancing, and here he earned his handsome income of 4,000 a year, which "he spent like a gentleman."
In 1763 Angelo published his grand folio in French, L'École des Armes. It is a magnificent specimen of contemporary binding and letterpress, and the engravings are of the highest possible order, the work of Hall and Ryland. It is especially interesting from the fact that Angelo himself stood for the drawings, so that in them we see him as he looked when handling the foils. In 1765, during the summer vacation, he visited Turin, having received a commission from the King of Sardinia for sixty hunters, which he sent on before him, probably in charge of young Anthony Tremamondo who afterwards kept a riding-school in Calcutta. The date of this visit, in which his wife accompaniced him, is fixed by the fact that when in Paris, on his way to Turin, he received a letter from Garrick, bearing date July, 1765.
Domenick Angelo died in comparative poverty, duce to his own lavish generosity. The date of his death was July 11th, 1802, and he died, probably in the house of his daughter, Dame Sophia Angelo, at Eton, in his eighty-sixth year. His will at Somerset House is dated May 11th, 1797, and it was proved August 4th, 1802. Everything he possessed he left
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