Admiral John Child Purvis

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Admiral John Child Purvis

Subject

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

Description

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 ..."

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.

Relation

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

birth notBefore="1700" notAfter="1799"

Death Date

1825 at Lymington, Hampshire

Occupation

a British Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century best known for his service with the
British Mediterranean Fleet during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Bibliography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Child_Purvis

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Paul M Curtis, “Admiral John Child Purvis,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 25, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/343.

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