Ingo Simon
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| birth_name = Ingo Heinrich Julius William Gustav SimonEngland & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
| birth_date = 6 May 18751939 England and Wales RegisterU.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
| birth_place = Chorlton, Lancashire, EnglandEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
| death_date = {{dda|1964|7|31|1875|5|6|df=y}}
| death_place = Exeter, Devon, England
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| other_names = Ingo Henry Simon
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| known_for = Archery
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Ingo Heinrich Julius William Gustav Simon (6 May 1875 – 31 July 1964), also known as Ingo Henry Simon, was an English singer,{{cite news |title=Mr Ingo Simon |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000053/19230523/089/0006 |access-date=15 August 2018 |work=The Era |date=23 May 1923 |page=6}} poet and accomplished archer{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/archery/|title=Archery|publisher=University of Manchester|access-date=17 January 2012}} who spent many years researching the history of archery and the development of bows. From 1914 to 1933, he held the world record for a flight-shot at {{convert|462|yard|m}}.
Life and career
Simon was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, the child of German engineer Henry Gustav Simon and his first wife, Mary Jane Lane of Melbourne, Australia. One of his younger half-brothers was Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe.1871 England Census1881 England Census He was an operatic singer and teacher.1911 England Census In 1918, he was living in the United States.
In 1910, an archery contest was held on the beach at Le Touquet, France, where Simon was able to shoot an arrow {{convert|475|yard|m}} using an old Turkish composite bow requiring a force of {{Convert|440|N|lbf}}."Invention and Evolution" by M. J. French (1988, Cambridge Univ. Press) (chapter 3.4.2)
Roving Shafts, a volume of his poems, some about archery, was published in 1924.{{cite news |title=Roving Shafts, poems by Ingo Simon |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19241009/139/0002 |access-date=15 August 2018 |work=The Scotsman |date=9 October 1924 |page=2}}
He died in 1964 in Devon and his widow, Erna, the 1937 women's world champion died in 1973; they endowed a trust in 1970, to conserve and develop his collection of bows, arrows and related equipment, which he donated to the Manchester Museum in 1946. The collection includes artefacts from many countries including Great Britain, Brazil, Europe, India, Pakistan, Japan, Central Asia, Africa, and the Pacific islands.The Manchester Museum. Derby: English Life, 1985; pp. 18–19
Works
- {{cite book |last=Simon |first=Ingo |author-mask=0 |title=Roving Shafts |year=1924 |publisher=Thornton Butterworth Ltd}}
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgpuAz3HYQE Ingo Simon shooting a Turkish bow in 1934]
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Category:20th-century English poets
Category:Sports world record setters
Category:People from Chorlton-on-Medlock