The 224 people named in the letters that Byron wrote during the Tour

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Title

The 224 people named in the letters that Byron wrote during the Tour

Subject

The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.

Description

Byron was a very social poet, and the 224 names of people who appear in his letters reveal the extent of his society. The number of people named equals the number of places mentioned in the letters.

Creator

Paul M Curtis

Source

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
The source of the diplomatic transcriptions is Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
Graham, Peter W. Byron's Bulldog. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984.

Publisher

The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com/

Date

13 April 2014

Contributor

Paul M Curtis

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.

Relation

David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/

Format

docx

Language

English

Type

People

Identifier

Personography

Coverage

English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824; 1809-1811

Collection Items

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Byron's friend

Byron's solicitor and life-long friend.

Byron's Cambridge friend. First elected fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.

Byron's Mother

aide-de-camp to General Oakes, Military commander in Malta

Captain of the Salsette and the Fame.
Mentioned by Byron in 1810-05-05 and 1810-05-29. See BLJ I-244n

The doctor is unidentified.

Byron's Cambridge friend, travelling companion and lifelong friend

Correspondent in 1809-06-25b and 1810-07-04a. He married the widow of Byron's cousin, Captain George Bettesworth. BLJ XI 158n. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85295250.html
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