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- Collection: The 224 people named in the letters that Byron wrote during the Tour
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Kattinka Macri
One of the three Macri sisters of Athens
Mariana Macri
Mariana, the eldest of the Macri sisters. BLJ II-13n
Teresa Macri
One of three daughters of Tarsia Macri, Byron's Athens landlady. "Mrs. Tarsia Macri, [was the] widow of a former British Vice-Consul. The youngest, Teresa, then only 12, Byron celebrated in is poem to the 'Maid of Athens'." BLJ I-240n. See as well,…
Saint Paul
apostle
John Claridge
A Harrow friend of Byron's. Recorder for the Straits Settlements from 1825 to 1829
Dr George Butler
Headmaster of Harrow, succeeding Dr Joseph Drury in 1805, and dean of Peterborough. See the portrait of Pomposus in 1807-03-06 and BLJ I-111n. Also mentioned by Byron in 1808-11-27 to FrHodgson
Alcibiades
a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.
Hero
a priestess of Aphrodite in Sestos -- See Byron to HeDrury 1810-05-03 where she appears as "Paradise"
Leander
a young man from Abydos
Sir William Gell
classical archaeologist and traveller