 This school was established by Domenico Angelo Malevolti Tremamondo (1716-1802), renowned Italian fencing master from Leghorn, author of the classic treatise on small sword "L’École des armes" (1763, "The School of Fencing").Alfred's father was a pupil of Henry Angelo "the elder" (1756-1835), son of the founder of this fencing dynasty, Domenico Angelo.After returning from India in 1865, Hutton had become the pupil and friend of William McTurk, Henry Charles Angelo's successor at the school of arms in St James' Street.