In 1594, Pluvinel founded the "Academie d'Equitation" near what is now Place des Pyramides, a long-time dream.
He belonged to an old noble family, whose main character was Antoine de Pluvinel, King Louis XIII's master of equitation.
In 1770, he went to Mrs Betesworth's Academy in Kingston, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, leaving in 1772 to join Mr Lockee's Military Academy, Little Chelsea, London, and later to Colonel Gallatin's School of Equitation for 7 months.
Helen Crabtree (December 14, 1915 – January 4, 2002) was a significant equitation coach in the discipline of Saddle seat riding as well as a breeder of American Saddlebred horses.
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Crabtree Stables produced 75 world champion American Saddlebred horses and 22 winners of the National Equitation Championships.
In 1925, after graduating from Woolwich, Williams-Wynn was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery; He served in the Royal Horse Artillery, was an Instructor at the Equitation School, Weedon, Adjutant of the 61st (Carnarvon and Denbigh Yeomanry) Medium Regiment of the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), from 1936 to 1940, and was promoted Major in 1940, having been appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1937.