Lizzie Aguzzi

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Elizabeth Clarice Aguzzi (4 February 1856 – 1938), was a British Circus equestrian performer.[1]

She was born at 3 Felix Street, Lambeth, London, as the daughter of the equestrian performer Antoni Aguzzi (1809/10–1880) and Helen Schmidt (1824–1903). She was a famous performer in the Circus stage of her time, known from the 1870s and onward. She was foremost famed as a bareback and trick act rider.

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  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID