Sir John Carr, Knight Errant

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Sir John Carr, Knight Errant

Subject

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

Description

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I have met Sir John Carr Knight errant at Seville & Cadiz, he is a pleasant man."

Creator

Paul M Curtis

Source

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809:
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/
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 236-42; QI 52-6; BLJ I 218-22)

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.

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

Language

English

Type

Person

Coverage

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

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Birth Date

1772-12-06

Birthplace

London

Death Date

1832-07-17 at New Norfolk Street, London

Occupation

travel writer

Biographical Text

Mentioned by Hobhouse to Byron 1810-08-15. "Lord Byron, who had met Carr in Cadiz, refers to him in some suppressed stanzas of canto 1 of Childe Harold as 'Green Erin's knight and Europe's wandering star'." ODNB

Bibliography

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4749?docPos=3

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Paul M Curtis, “Sir John Carr, Knight Errant,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 20, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/340.

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