Tobias capwell biography of michael jackson

American historian

Tobias Emanuel ("Toby") CapwellFSA (born c. 1973) is an American historian who lives and works in London. His principal interest is in European arms and armour of the medieval and Renaissance periods (roughly, the 12th century to the 16th).

He was formerly Curator of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection in London.

He has written and spoken extensively on both the historical and the practical aspects of his subject. Capwell is also a skilled jouster, and has claimed to be the world's only jousting curator.^[1]

Biography

Capwell's interest in chivalric combat was aroused when he visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York at the age of four or five, and was so impressed by an exhibit of a man in plate armour on horseback that he knew that that was what he wanted to be when he grew up.^[2] He began to learn to ride at the age of eleven.

Eight years later, he faced his first opponent in front of thre