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- Collection: The 224 people named in the letters that Byron wrote during the Tour
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Jacob Tonson
Printer, bookseller
James Cazenove
the brothers who escaped from France and imprisonment By Napoleon
James Ridgeway
London bookseller who began trading in 1784; he was imprisoned in 1793 for printing Thomas Paine's Rights of Man. LBT
James Wedderburn Webster
an early Harrow friend of Byron.
Jane Kinsey (Saunders) Fane, Lady Westmoreland
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I have not yet been to Africa, the wind is contrary, but I dined yesterday at Algesiras with Lady Westmoreland where I met General Castanos the celebrated Spanish leader in the late & present war,…
Jesus (Christ)
The central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God, and is regarded as a major Prophet in Islam
Joe Murray
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... you shall hear from me on our route, Joe Murray delivers this, I have sent him & the boy back, pray shew the lad any kindness as he is my great favourite, I would have taken him on ..."
John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gyfford
Byron's Cambridge friend, travelling companion and lifelong friend
John Claridge
A Harrow friend of Byron's. Recorder for the Straits Settlements from 1825 to 1829