Egerton Castle
Egerton Smith Castle F.S.A. 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.
He was born in London into a wealthy family; his maternal grandfather was the publishing magnate and philanthropist Egerton Smith. 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.
Selected works
- Schools and Masters of Fencing : From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century, , .
- Consequences. London: Richard Bentley and Son. 1891. 3 volume novel.
- English Book-plates. An illustrated handbook for students of ex-libris..
- The Pride of Jennico.
- The Pride of Jennico, play based on the novel of same name.
- The Bath Comedy ; adapted by David Belasco into the 1903 Broadway play Sweet Kitty Bellairs; in turn made into a 1916 silent movie and a 1930 musical movie in Technicolor. See below, Sweet Kitty Bellairs.
- La Bella And Others.
- Marshfield the Observer; and The Death Dance..
- Rose of the World.
- Our Sentimental Garden. 1914 USA /1915 London.
- Count Raven novel.
- Minniglen..
Filmography
- The Pride of Jennico, directed by J. Searle Dawley.
- The Incomparable Bellairs, directed by Harold M. Shaw.
- The Secret Orchard, directed by Frank Reicher.
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs, directed by James Young.
- Rose of the World, directed by Maurice Tourneur.
- Young April, directed by Donald Crisp.
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs, directed by Alfred E. Green.