Sir Godfrey Webster

Sir Godfrey Webster

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

Mentioned by Byron in 1808-03-14, as glossed by PSC, and 1810-11-26. "Sir G. W. was probably Sir Godfrey Webster; Sir B. G. was Sir B. Graham. They and Captain Wallace were companions of Byron’s roistering days in 1808. See April 15, 1808, to Hobhouse." BLJ II-28n.
See as well Byron to ElLamb 1812-11-06.
Glossed by Peter W Graham in Byron's Bulldog: Sir Godfrey Vassall Webster (1789-1836), fifth baronet, was the son of Sir Godfrey and Elizabeth Vassall Webster, who, divorced by her
husband for adultery, married Lord Holland in 1797." BB 34n.

Paul M Curtis

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/
Graham, Peter W. Byron's Bulldog. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984.

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

13 April 2014

Paul M Curtis

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

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

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