Heather Seymour "Judy" Guinness (14 August 1910 – 24 October 1952) was a British fencer. She won a silver medal in the women's individual

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. 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 Ellen Müller-Preis, née Preis, (6 May 1912 – 18 November 2007) was a German-born Austrian Olympic-champion foil fencer. In 1949, she was named Austrian female athlete of the year. Fencing career Preis was born in Berlin, and was Jewish. Sh ...

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'', 29 March 2009 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 plane crash and she remarried John Henning in 1942. She died in 1952 at Springhare Farm in Rhodesia.

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* 1910 births 1952 deaths British female fencers Olympic fencers for Great Britain Fencers at the 1932 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in fencing Sportspeople from Dublin (city) Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics Judy {{UK-fencing-bio-stub