Having spent the day sorting out the web page with a technical hitch, I thought about some of the comments from the unofficial Face book page of the Custodians fencing club. Here I found a comments discussion on the nicknames attributed to some of our members.

 This Blog is about how the Baron came to get his name. Or at least my version of events.  No doubt the Baron will correct me at some point.

During a committee meeting after a fencing session, ie Drinks in the Bar, I was telling Tony V. ( AKA the Baron ) about my interest in tracing My family tree, and how I had managed to get back to 1775, and found to be of good old peasant stock.

He said he had also traced one of his distant relatives  back to around 1700, Baron Charles Mohun.

Instead of being completely bemused by this relavation ( you forget I am an educated Man ) I replied ' not the Dog of Havoc 'that contributed to Fencing being outlawed in Britain.

As I remember from my studies, Baron or Lord Mohun was involved in a particularly unpleasant Duel around 1712 in Hyde Park with the Duke of Hamilton. More of a free for all rather than a chilverous affair from accounts from the period, to which I believe both parties died.

Having already named a member of the club 'Mad Dog' ( future Blog ), it was deemed one dog too many to be called the Dog of Havoc. So the Baron was Born. If He is a distant descendant of the Dog of Havoc, this could explain his style of fencing on the piste.