Edward William BartonWright CE, M.J.S. was a British entrepreneur specialising in both self defence training and physical therapy. He is remembered today as having been one of the first Europeans to both learn and teach Japanese martial arts and as a pioneer of the concept of hybrid martial arts.
He was born Edward William Wright onNovember 1860 in Bangalore, India, the third of six children of railway engineer William Barton Wright and his wife Jane . He had a twin brother, who died shortly after birth.
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