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Poet, playwright, and critic

Byron to JoFosterin 1810-11. "John Foster, a Liverpool architect, met Cockerell in 1810 in Constantinople and continued his travels and research with him in Greece. He was one of the travelling Englishmen with whom B. was associated in Athens in…

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-10-04 -- an English radical orator

Mentioned by Hobhouse in 1810-07-31a to Byron. John Galt, Scottish novelist and poet, traveled from Gibraltar to Malta with Hobhouse and Byron, whom he also met at Athens. BB 40n.
John Galt (1779-1839) a Scottish miscellaneous writer, was on a …

Byron's solicitor and life-long friend.

Lawyer and literary scholar

Mentioned by Byron in 1811-01-10: "John Fiott (I783-1866), a graduate of St. John’s College, Cambridge, toured the Near East in 1807-10 as a 'travelling Bachelor' of his college, collecting antiquities, including manuscripts, coins, and…

scholar and antiquary

Publisher

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, September 15th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 243-6; QI 56-7; BLJ I 223-4