- Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 29th April 2017
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A rare portrait sketch of Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright from The People newspaper of 24 October, 1915.
At this time, Barton-Wright would have been aged about 55 and was managing his impressively-appointed therapeutic clinic in Oxford Street:
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