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.[1][2] 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.[3]
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Birth name | Heather Seymour Guinness | |||||||||||||
Full name | Judy Guinness Penn-Hughes | |||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Judy | |||||||||||||
Nationality | British | |||||||||||||
Born | (1910-08-14)14 August 1910 Dublin, Ireland | |||||||||||||
Died | 24 October 1952(1952-10-24) (aged 42) Matabeleland North, Rhodesia | |||||||||||||
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Country | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||
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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.[2]
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