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Professional Boxer and heavyweight champion of England, Byron’s boxing instructor.

The son of Thetis and Pelus, mentioned by Byron in 1810-05-03 to Henry Drury

Mentioned in Byron to Hobhouse 1810-10-04

Byron to John Hanson, September 29th 1809:
(Source: text from B.L.Egerton 2611 ff.149-51; BLJ I 225)

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... Admiral Purvis with whom I dined at Cadiz gave me {a passage} in a frigate to Gibraltar, but we have no ship of war destined for Malta at present ..."

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "The night before I left it, I sat in the box {at the opera} with Admiral Cordova’s family, he is the commander whom Ld. St. Vincent defeated in 1797, and has an aged wife and a fine daughter. – – –"

Greek hero of the Trojan, the son of King Telamon and Periboea

a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.

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Poet, critic, painter, landscape gardener. From the ODNB: "Poet, critic, and religious humanist, Pope was also a good conversationalist and letter writer, an influential garden designer, and a connoisseur of architecture and art."