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Classical scholar, son of the Revd Joseph Drury (1751–1834). "Headmaster of Harrow School 1785-1805)."
Garrett, Martin. The Palgrave Dictionary of Byron. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, 91.
Henry Drury was Byron’s…

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-05-03. Identified by Tim Webb.
See The Byron Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 49-58.

International banker with agents in Malta and Constantinople: BLJ 1-205n.

A friend of Hanson's, he loaned money to Byron.

Mentioned by Byron to Hanson 1809-07-13 and BLJ I-214n. Hobhouse to Byron 1810-12-10a, Byron to JnMurray 1812-10-23. Politician

See Byron to StCanning 1810-10-13. Writes to Byron 1811-02-11

Mentioned by GeForesti in 1810-01-05 and see BJL 3-160n with reference to Byron to AnMilbanke 17 Nov 1813. 1810-10-13:
"Stratford Canning, cousin of the statesman George Canning, had been first secretary of the British Embassy in Constantinople…

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 Hobhouse in 1810-08-16 and by Byron in 1810-11-26. See 1810-11-26 to Hobhouse. "Charles Robert Cockerell (1788—1863), an architect who later achieved renown, was starting on a course of professional studies by exploring…

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…