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THE ANGELO FAMILY instructor in the use of the cutlass, introducing much needed reforms, as his father in the British cavalry, and his kinsman Anthony Tremamondo in the Bengal Cavalry, had similarly introduced reforms as greatly needed. In 1789, Henry Angelo's school was burnt down, and he appears to have moved then to Old Bond Street (living at Bolton Row), and there he established another school, of which his son, a second Henry, took over charge in 1817. Then, in a year undefined, save by the phrase "the year of Kean's bencfit," perhaps 1827, he strained his left thigh, when that great actor and himself were together fencing, which com pelled him to "bid adieu to the practical exertions of the science." His remaining days he spent in the enjoyment of a small annuity at some village near Bath, that city which his father, Domenick, in more prosperous times, when he was proverbially known as "one of the most elegant men of the age, the gayest of the gay," used to visit from time to time in the palmy days of Beau Nash. There our hero died, probably in the year 1839, and in the 83rd year of his age. Henry Angelo, like his father, Domenick, was a member of the Somerset House Lodge of Freemasons, and the following notices of him in the records of Freemason's Hall are now for the first time published 1. Henry Angelo, Gent., Carlisle St., made in Somerset House Lodge, November 8th, 1790. 2. 1802. Henry Angelo, President of the Board of Grand Stewards, Freemasons' Hall But a more important discovery made since the publication of my history of the Angelo family lies in the circumstance that Henry Angelo must have had an elder brother, that is to say, a half-brother, his father Domenick's son by a previous