Egerton Smith CastleF.S.A. (12 March 1858 – 16 September 1920) was an author,antiquarian, and swordsman, and an early practitioner of reconstructedhistorical fencing, frequently in collaboration with his colleague CaptainAlfred Hutton. Castle was the captain of the British épée and sabre teams at the1908 Summer Olympics.^[1]

He was born in London into a wealthy family; his maternal grandfather was the publishing magnate and philanthropistEgerton Smith.^[2] He was a lieutenant of the SecondWest India Regiment and afterwards a captain of the Royal Engineers Militia. He was also an expert onbookplates and a keen collector.

Egerton Castle co-authored several novels with his wife,Agnes Sweetman Castle.

• Schools and Masters of Fencing : From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century,ISBN 0-486-42826-5 (2005),ISBN 1-4286-0940-7 (2006). (The first edition: G. Bell & Sons, London 1885)^[3]
• "The Baron's Quarry" (short story)
• Consequences. London: Richard Bentley and Son. 1891. 3 volume novel.
• English Book-plates. An illustrated handbook for students of ex-libris. (G. Bell & sons, London 1893).
• The Pride of Jennico (1897, novel, composed with Agnes Castle).
• The Pride of Jennico, play based on the novel of same name.
• The Bath Comedy (1900, novel, with Agnes Castle); adapted byDavid Belasco into the 1903 Broadway playSweet Kitty Bellairs; in turn made into a1916 silent movie and a1930 musical movie in Technicolor. See below, Sweet Kitty Bellairs.
• La Bella And Others (short stories published by Macmillan, London 1900).
• Marshfield the Observer; and The Death Dance. (fantasy fiction published by Macmillan 1900).
• Rose of the World (1905, novel, with Agnes Castle).
• Our Sentimental Garden. (with Agnes Castle and illustrated by Charles Robinson) 1914 USA /1915 London.
• Count Raven (Cassell, London 1916) novel.
• Minniglen. (romance, 1918, with Agnes Castle).

• The Pride of Jennico, directed byJ. Searle Dawley (1914, based onThe Pride of Jennico).
• The Incomparable Bellairs, directed byHarold M. Shaw (UK, 1914, based onThe Incomparable Bellairs).
• The Secret Orchard, directed byFrank Reicher (1915, based onThe Secret Orchard).
• Sweet Kitty Bellairs, directed byJames Young (1916, based onThe Bath Comedy).
• Rose of the World, directed byMaurice Tourneur (1918, based onRose of the World).
• Young April, directed byDonald Crisp (1926, based onYoung April).
• Sweet Kitty Bellairs, directed byAlfred E. Green (1930, based onThe Bath Comedy).

• Alfred Hutton
• Agnes Castle

• The Edgar Rice Burroughs Library

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• Works by Egerton Castle atLibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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