The elder of the two Henry Angelos published two amusing anecdotal volumes, ‘Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, with Memoirs of his late Father and Friends’ (2 vols. 1830, 8vo), and ‘Angelo's Pic-Nic or Table Talk’ (1834, 8vo, with a frontispiece by Cruikshank, and original contributions by Colman, Theodore Hook, Bulwer, Horace Smith, Boaden, and others). The stories range among all ranks of society, from the regent and William IV to Macklin and Kean, and from Byron to Lady Hamilton. Verisimilitude is occasionally lacking, and the writer abstains throughout with a graceful ease from giving any dates. The Sophia Angelo who died on 7 April 1847, aged 88, ‘the oldest and most celebrated dame at Eton,’ was probably one of Domenico's daughters.
[Gent. Mag. 1802 ii. 692, 1839, ii. 419, 1847 i. 561, 1852 ii. 543; Cooper's Register and Mag. of Biogr. 1869, ii. 206; Egerton Castle's Schools and Masters of Fence, 1892, pp. 299 seq.; Thimm's Bibliography of Fencing, 1896; Merignac's Histoire de l'Escrime, 1883–6, ii. 568; Pollock's Fencing, in Badminton Library; Wheatley and Cunningham's London, i. 330.]
TREMAYNE, EDMUND (d. 1582), clerk of the privy council, was second son of Thomas Tremayne of Collacombe, Lamerton, Devonshire, where the Devonshire branch of this old Cornish family had been established since 1366. His mother was Philippa, eldest daughter of Roger Grenville of Stow. Of this marriage were born sixteen children, of whom four—Edmund, Richard (see below), and the twins Nicholas and Andrew—acquired some reputation. The twins Andrew and Nicholas were strikingly alike, physically and mentally. The elder, Andrew, fled with Sir Peter Carew [q. v.] on 25 Jan. 1553–4, and both were imprisoned on suspicion of piracy on 24 Feb. 1554–5, but escaped to France, where they were pensioned by the French king. They were also implicated in Sir Anthony Kingston's plot in 1556. After Elizabeth's accession they entered her service. Andrew led a brilliant cavalry charge against the French at Leith in April 1560, and was killed at Newhaven (Havre) on 18 July 1562. Nicholas, who seems to have been a special favourite of Elizabeth, was frequently employed in carrying important despatches between France and England, and distinguished himself at the siege of Newhaven, where he was killed on 26 May 1562.
Edmund entered the service of Edward Courtenay, earl of Devonshire [q. v.], in the autumn of 1553, but was committed to the Tower in February or March following, on suspicion of being concerned in Wyatt's rebellion. He was racked during the time Elizabeth was a prisoner in the Tower (Fox), but would not implicate her or Courtenay, his master. On Friday, 18 Jan. 1554–5, he was released with Sir Gawen Carew, the three sons of the late Duke of Northumberland, and others. His fine (40l.) was the lowest enforced. Tremayne seems to have joined Courtenay in Italy. Courtenay wrote from Venice on 2 May 1556: ‘I am sorry for Tremayne's foolish departure, albeit satisfied and content therewith as he shall well perceive, but I trust the cause thereof will prove as you have written.’ This probably means that the earl thought it foolish of Tremayne to leave England and lay himself open to a charge of treason. Courtenay died at Padua on 18 Sept. 1556, and it is possible that Tremayne afterwards entered the service of Francis, earl of Bedford, who was in Venice in 1557. The appointment he received in 1561 of deputy butler for Devonshire must have been through the influence of the Earl of Bedford, then lord-lieutenant of Devonshire. Tremayne spent some time at Elizabeth's court, and Burghley thought so highly of him that in July 1569 he sent him on a special mission to Ireland, ‘to examine into the truth and let him know quietly the real condition of the country.’ Tremayne remained in Ireland until the close of 1569, writing frequently to Cecil on Irish affairs. On 3 May 1571 he was sworn clerk of the privy council at Westminster (Acts of the Privy Council). He wrote in June a paper entitled ‘Causes why Ireland is not Reformed,’ which was endorsed by Burghley with the words ‘a good advice.’ Tremayne was returned M.P. for Plymouth (1572) with John Hawkyns. In June he drew up, with Lord Burghley, an important document, ‘Matters wherewith the Queen of Scots may be Charged,’ from which Burghley's signature was afterwards erased.
Tremayne succeeded to the family estates on his elder brother's death on 13 March 1571–2. He still maintained a special interest in Irish affairs, and revisited the country late in 1573 (cf. ‘Instructions given to Mr. E. Tremayne upon his being sent to the Lord Deputy of Ireland by the Lord Treasurer,’ 1573, in Lambeth MSS.) The city of Exeter granted Tremayne in 1574 a reversion to Sir Gawen Carew's pension of 40l. ‘in reward of their good services done this city’ (Isaacke). Carew outlived Tremayne, so the latter never benefited by the grant. The family mansion of Collacombe was altered and enlarged by him; the date 1574 still appears with the family arms and those of his royal mistress in the great hall.
