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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 …

the daughter of John Hanson

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

the prophet and founder of Islam

teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

spiritual leader

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-11-14 and 1811-01-10: "Baron Haller, an architect and archaeologist, also had talent as an artist, and produced many drawings and landscape paintings of Greece." BLJ II-33n

archaeologist, as well as a writer, painter and art historian

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-11-14 to Hodgson

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 …