Julia Beelaerts van Blokland
Beelaerts van Blokland was a fencer at Salle De Vos in The Hague. She was one of the earliest female fencers in the Netherlands. Together with four other females of Salle De Vos (H. Luden, C. van Doorn, E. van den Bergand H. van den Berg) she went to London, United Kingdom for the 1911 England–Holland women's fencing competitions. Beelaerts van Blokland was the captain of the Dutch team. In Londen they competed against female fencers of the Bertrands Fencing Academy. This was the first international fencing competition for Dutch women. The ladies fenced well, but lost as a team both on 16 March and 17 March from the British team that included British champion Millicent Hall and Julia Johnstone. A week later, after coming back in the Netherlands, she had a match against C. van Doorn during a main fencing event in The Hague.