James Chiosso

In the 1830s Charles Thorold Wood invited Chiosso and other scholars to tutor his sons in Campsall, Yorkshire.

During his time in Campsall he was a regular contributor to the Society for the Acquisition of Knowledge, teaching local labourers French and current affairs.

[3] He also founded the London Gymnasium and Fencing School (123 Oxford Street) and the Blackheath Gymnasium and Fencing School (D'Acre Park, Lee, Lewisham)[4] which were still being run by his grandson in 1940.

He died in Norfolk Villas, Bayswater, in March 1864, as later did his wife in 1877, and his son Antonio in 1893.

[5] His daughter Caroline emigrated to Australia, where her son Walter Wilson Froggatt, became an eminent entomologist.