Egerton Smith Castle (1858-1920) was a Victorian era author, antiquarian, and swordsman, and an early practitioner of reconstructed historical fencing. His works include: The Light of Scarthey (1895), ‘Young April’ (1899) and Marshfield the Observer (1900). Most of his later novels were written in collaboration with his wife, Agnes nee Sweetman Castle (1863-1922), such as: The Pride of Jennico (1899), The Bath Comedy (1900), The Secret Orchard (1901), The Star Dreamer (1903), To the Tune of Little Red Heels (1903), Incomparable Bellairs (1904), French Nan (1905), Rose of the World (1905), ‘If Youth but Knew! " (1906), My Merry Rockhurst (1907), Wroth (1908), Diamond Cut Paste (1909), Panther’s Cub (1910), The Lost Iphigenia (1911), The Grip of Life (1912), Chance the Piper (1913), The Golden Barrier (1913), The Ways of Miss Barbara (1914), Our Sentimental Garden (1914), A Little House in Wartime (1915), Count Raven (1916), The Wind’s Will (1916), Wolf-Lure (1917), Minniglen (1918), Little Hours in Great Days (1919), John Seneschal’s Margaret (1920), Pamela Pounce (1921), Minuet and Foxtrot (1922) and Enchanted Casements (1923).