Henry Peter Brougham

Henry Peter Brougham

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

Lord Chancellor

Paul M Curtis

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Byron to Edward Ellice, from Constantinople, July 4th, 1810
(Source: text from BLJ I 254-56)
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/

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

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Paul M Curtis

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David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
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English

Person

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

1778-09-19

21 St Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh

1868-05-07

Lord chancellor

Mentioned by Byron to EdEllice 1810-07-04a and LeHunt to Byron 1813-12-22.
"Henry Peter Brougham ( 1778—1868), later Baron Brougham and Vaux, was one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review. It was he who wrote the anonymous review of Hours of Idleness which so incensed Byron and which he erroneously ascribed to the editor Francis Jeffrey. In 1810 Brougham entered Parliament and became a powerful advocate of reform. He defended Queen Caroline during her trial in 1820, worked for the abolition of slavery and for legal reform. He was one of the founders of London University and of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. When Byron learned later that Brougham had spread evil rumours about him during the Separation proceedings, and that he was the Edinburgh reviewer of his poems, he vowed that if he ever came back to England he would challenge Brougham to a duel." BLJ I 255n

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