Judy Guinness
British fencer (1910–1952)
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Heather Seymour "Judy" Guinness (14 August 1910 – 24 October 1952) was a British fencer. She won a silver medal in the women's individual foil event at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[1][2] The judges had awarded her the gold medal but, in a noted gesture of fair play, she informed them they had failed to count two hits achieved by her Austrian opponent Ellen Preis.[3]
FullnameJudy Guinness Penn-Hughes
Nickname
JudyNationalityBritish
BornHeather Seymour Guinness
14 August 1910
14 August 1910
Dublin, Ireland
winner of "fair play" in 1932 | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Judy Guinness Penn-Hughes | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Judy | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | Heather Seymour Guinness 14 August 1910 Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 October 1952 (aged 42) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
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She was a daughter of Henry Guinness (d.1945), an Irish engineer, banker and politician. In 1934 she married the racing driver Clifton Penn-Hughes. He died in a plane crash and she remarried John Henning in 1942. She died in 1952 at Springhare Farm in Rhodesia.[2]
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