Edgar Isaac Seligman (14 April 1867 – 27 September 1958) was an accomplished American-born British painter, who exhibited at the Fine Art Society and Royal Academy and was a highly competitive épée, foil, and sabre fencer.

[1] Seligman was born in San Francisco, California, in the United States, to German-American parents, and was Jewish.

[7][8][9] His father was Leopold Seligman, a businessman and banker who headed a London banking firm.

Edgar's immediate family, headed by his father Leopold and his mother Margeurite, moved to London, England, around 1869, when he was two.

[10] With the Imperial Yeomanry, in his early thirties, Seligman took part in the Boer War, occurring between 1899 and 1902.

[9] Edgar became a British citizen by naturalisation[3] around 1905 at the age of 38, which required him to forswear allegiance to the United States.

Edgar was forty-two, and Georgette was twelve years younger, and both had lived and possibly met on Queen's Gate, a street in South Kensington, London.

Her father George Joseph Samuel Mosenthal (1852-1912) was a prominent Jewish businessman and merchant, active in London high society, who was a member of an association of Capetown Merchants that ruled on the continuation of mail to England's Cape Colony in South Africa in 1886.

[1][23] Seligman would attend fencing school and compete or judge occasional competitions at Salle Bertrand's as late as 1928,[24] and London's F. McPherson's School of Arms in Westminster as early as 1906,[25] and stay active as a competitor at least through the 1920s with his last competitive Olympics in 1924 at the age of 57.

Military teams often competed at Bertrand's and McPherson's, and the competitions were often arranged by the British Fencing Association.

[1] Seligman acted as a fencing referee and judge in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics, continuing his participation in the sport into his sixties.

[1] As a painter, Seligman had artwork shown at the Fine Art Society and Royal Academy.

After his match on the second day of the games, Seligman was personally summoned and congratulated by King George V of England, likely with other team members, on April 24, 1906.