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- Collection: The 224 people named in the letters that Byron wrote during the Tour
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George Hamilton Gordon, fourth earl of Aberdeen
"I have known a hundred instances of men setting out in couples, but not one of a similar return. Aberdeen’s party split; several voyagers at present have done the same. I am confident that twelve months of any given individual is perfect…
Sally Fletcher
The wife of William Fletcher, Byron's valet
Henry Gally Knight
Architectural writer and antiquary
John Nicholas Fazakerly
scholar and antiquary
Mr Paul
"Mr Paul, a cousin of the British Vice-Consul Stranè, was the Imperial Consul in Patras." BLJ II-7n
Cogia Bashi
The Cogia Bachi was a Greek provincial official under the Turks.
Nourse
"... Nourse and Darwin had been at Athens scribbling all sorts of ribaldry over my old apartment, where Sligo before my arrival had added to your B.A. an A.S.S. ..."
Dr Francis Darwin
"... a passenger on the Pylades sloop-of-war when they left Athens for Smyrna in March 1810." BLJ II-7n
"Gentleman" John Jackson
Professional Boxer and heavyweight champion of England, Byron’s boxing instructor.
D'Egville
unidentified