Judy Guinness - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Aug 14, 1910 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland Died on 24 Oct 1952 (aged 42)

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About Judy Guinness

  • 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.
  • 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.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 pane crash and she remarried John Henning in 1942.
  • She died in 1952 at Springhare Farm in Rhodesia.

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