Geoffrey Trinder

Geoffrey Trinder was educated at Harrow School before going to Cambridge, where he won his fencing Blue in 1929. The following year he won the first of a record four British Sabre Championships, beating Guy Harry into second place. It was the same result the following year, but it was Trinder who finished runner-up in 1932 to Arthur Pilbrow. Over the next three years Trinder and Pilbrow dominated the Championship with Trinder winning in 1933 and, when he won in 1934, he became the first man to win the title on four occasions.

A fifth title nearly came Trinder’s way in 1935 but he had to be content with second place behind Pilbrow. All of Trinder’s British titles came while he was a member of the Royal Automobile Club Fencing Club. He also contested the British Foil Championship, but without success. Trinder’s finest moment internationally came at the 1933 World Fencing Championships at Budapest, when he won a sabre team bronze medal along with Pilbrow, Charles de Beaumont, and Emrys Lloyd.

Trinder continued fencing after World War II and was a member of the Great Britain team at the 1947 World Championships in Lisboa, where he was eliminated in the second round of the individual event and the British team was eliminated in the first round. Like his father and grandfather before him, Trinder was a ship broker along with his brother, Sir Charles Trinder, the Lord Mayor of London in 1968-69.