John Musgrave Waite
British fencer
- Born
- 1820
- Died
- 13 September 1884
- Sport
- fencing
- Occupation
- fencer
John Musgrave Waite (c. 1820 – 13 September 1884) was a Victorian fencing master (sabre, singlestick, small-sword, foil), non-commissioned officer in the 2nd Life Guards.
A master who had a considerable following between about 1865 and 1880 was John
Musgrave Waite, formerly Corporal-Quartermaster in the Second Life Guards, a regiment in
which the tradition of the sabre had always been maintained. As far as the small-sword was
concerned, Waite had been the pupil of Pierre Prévost, but his speciality was the sabre and
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