Mary Ann Venables
British fencer
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Mary Ann Venables (29 Sept 1902–11 Jun 1975)[1][2] was a left-handed British fencer. She won a bronze medal in the individual foil event at the 1930 World Fencing Championships.[3]
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Venables studied engineering at St. Paul's Girls' School and went on to work for Sotheby's and the Royal Society of Medicine. A polyglot, she spoke French, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Italian, and Spanish. She used her language abilities to translate medical abstracts, articles, and books into English at the RSM.[citation needed]
She never married and lived in London with her father until his death in 1952, when she moved to Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire. She died in Salisbury in 1975.[4]
Fencing career
Venables tied for second place in the 1929 Hutton Cup.[5] She took the bronze at the 1930 World Fencing Championships, behind Belgian Jenny Addams and Italian Germana Schwaiger. After being runner-up for two years, she won the Baptiste Bertrand Cup in 1930.[6] That same year, she won the Desprez Fencing Cup; in 1931, she took third in the contest and second the following year.[7][8] As part of the 1932 Bertrand team, she was runner-up in the Martin-Edmunds Inter-Salle Challenge Cup competition.[9]
She was controversially left off the British women's team for the 1933 European Championships in Budapest.[10]
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