Ingo Heinrich Julius William Gustav Simon (6 May 1875 – 31 July 1964), also known as Ingo Henry Simon, was an English singer, poet and accomplished

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...

who spent many years researching the history of archery and the development of bows. From 1914 to 1933, he held the world record for a flight-shot at .

Life and career

Simon was born in

Chorlton-on-Medlock Chorlton-on-Medlock or Chorlton-upon-Medlock is an inner city area of Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, Chorlton-on-Medlock is bordered to the north by the River Medlock, which runs immediately south of Manchester city centre. It ...

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

, the child of German engineer

Henry Gustav Simon Henry Simon (7 June 1835 – 22 July 1899) was a German born engineer who revolutionised Great Britain's flour milling industry and in 1878 founded the engineering companies Henry Simon Ltd and Simon Carves. His second son, Ernest Darwin Simo ...

and his first wife, Mary Jane Lane of Melbourne, Australia. One of his younger half-brothers was

Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe Ernest Emil Darwin Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe (9 October 1879 – 3 October 1960) was a British industrialist, politician and public servant. Lord Mayor of Manchester in 1921–1922, he was a member of parliament for two terms between ...

. He was an operatic singer and teacher. In 1918, he was living in the United States. In 1910, an archery contest was held on the beach at

Le Touquet Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (; pcd, Ech Toutchet-Paris-Plache; vls, 't Oekske, older nl, Het Hoekske), commonly referred to as Le Touquet (), is a commune near Étaples, in the Pas-de-Calais department, northern France. It has a population of 4, ...

, France, where Simon was able to shoot an arrow using an old Turkish composite bow requiring a force of . ''Roving Shafts'', a volume of his poems, some about archery, was published in 1924. He died in 1964 in Devon and his widow, Erna, the 1937 women's world champion died in 1973; they endowed a trust in 1970, to conserve and develop his collection of bows,

arrow An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow. A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers c ...

s and related equipment, which he donated to the

Manchester Museum Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England. Sited on Oxford Road ( A34) at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, ...

in 1946. The collection includes artefacts from many countries including Great Britain, Brazil, Europe, India, Pakistan, Japan, Central Asia, Africa, and the Pacific islands.''The Manchester Museum''. Derby: English Life, 1985; pp. 18–19

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Ingo Simon shooting a Turkish bow in 1934
{{DEFAULTSORT:Simon, Ingo 1875 births 1964 deaths English male singers 20th-century English poets English male archers Sports world record setters People from Chorlton-on-Medlock English people of German descent