THE ANGELO FAMILY
who died unmarried, an officer in the 3rd West India Regiment, in 1850.
(2) Henry Angelo (II.), a professional swordsman like his father, and Superintendent of Sword-exercise to the Army. I do not possess his baptismal certificate, but the following entry at Freemason's Hall fixes the year of his birth as 1780-1.
Henry Angelo, Jr., Bolton Row, aged 20 (made in Somerset House Lodge), March, 1801.
In the lamentable family divisions between Henry Angelo I. and his father Domenick, which existed to the last, it is evident that Henry Angelo II. took sides with his father, while his elder brother, George Frederick, was equally firm in his devotion to his grandfather. And from his father he learnt the art of fence, becoming a master, and so carried on the famous school of masters founded by Domenick. He took over charge of his father's academy in 1817, and in 1830 moved it to St. James' Street. Many still surviving will remember it well. Among his more famous pupils were the King of Hanover and the late Duke of Cambridge. In 1883 he was appointed Superintendent of Sword-exercise to the Army, in succession, I think, to his younger brother, Colonel Edward Anthony Angelo, and that post he held to the last. He died on October 14th, 1852, at Brighton, aged 72, being described as Henry Angelo, Esq., Superintendent of Sword exercise to the Army. In his brief informal will at Somerset House he styles himself Henry Angelo, of Upper Wimpole Street. He leaves all his effects to his wife, Mary Ann Angelo. She was sister to General William Samuel Heathcote and granddaughter to Sir William Heathcote, of Hursley, the first
Baronet. She was baptized at St. Bride's, Fleet Street,
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