Judy Guinness

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Heather Seymour "Judy" Guinness ( . Verh Penn Hughes , married. Henning * 14. August 1910 in Dublin ; † 24. October 1952 on Springhare Farm, Matabeleland North , Rhodesia ) was a British fencer .

life and career

Guinness competed twice at the Olympic Games in foil fencing . In 1932 in Los Angeles she won the silver medal, where she was initially declared the winner of the final duel. However, she herself stated that the referees had wrongly decided in her favor twice and that she therefore lost the fight against the Austrian Ellen Preis . The jury followed their instructions and awarded the gold medal to Ellen Preis. In her second Olympic participation in 1936 , she was eliminated in the semifinals. In 1933 and 1938 she became British champion.

1934 married Guinness, daughter of the engineer, banker and politician Henry Seymour Guinness (1858-1945) from the Irish brewery family and his wife Mary Middleton Bainbridge († 1954), the racing driver and entrepreneur's son Clifton Penn Hughes . He died in a plane crash in Folkestone in July 1939 . Penn Hughes is buried with his parents in St Peter's Church in Hersham . In 1942 Judy Guinness remarried, her second husband's name was John Henning.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olympic spirit. olympic.org, accessed April 26, 2014 .
  2. ↑ British Champions. (pdf) Accessed March 4, 2019 (English).
  3. ^ Henry Seymour Guinness on thepeerage.com , accessed September 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Clifton Penn Hughes & Heather Seymour Guinness. family-forest.co.uk, accessed April 26, 2014 .
  5. ^ Clifton Penn Hughes grave monument. (No longer available online.) Gravestonephotos.com, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 26, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gravestonephotos.com  
  6. ^ The Story of the Church in Hersham, St Peter's Church. (No longer available online.) St Peter's Church, Hersham, May 23, 2009, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved April 26, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stpetershersham.com
  7. ↑ Heather Seymour Guinness on thepeerage.com , accessed September 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Guinness, Judy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guinness Penn Hughes, Heather Seymour (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British fencer
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1952
Place of death Springhare Farm, Matabeleland North Province , Rhodesia