Roger Francis Tredgold (23 October 1911 – 24 December 1975) was a British fencer. He competed at the

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, 1948 and

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. He was a six times British fencing champion, winning the

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title at the

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in 1937, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1955. He was the son of the neurologist

A. F. Tredgold Alfred Frank Tredgold FRSE FRCP TD (5 November 1870 – 17 September 1952) was a 20th-century British neurologist and psychiatrist and expert in Amentia. He also wrote on eugenics from the early 20th century. He was a member of the Eugenics Ed ...

and his wife Zoe Hanbury. He was educated at

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and

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. In his professional life he was a distinguished psychiatrist and writer.Winchester College 1915-1960 A Register page 172

References

1911 births 1975 deaths British male fencers Olympic fencers for Great Britain Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1952 Summer Olympics People educated at Winchester College Sportspeople from Guildford {{UK-fencing-bio-stub