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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…

Reverend, English Chaplain in Holland

Playwright and politician

politician and diplomatist, Byron writes Adair on July 4, 1810 from Pera

Writer, editor of Byron's early poetry. Byron gave him the copyrights to the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and The Corsair, in addition to a series of letters written to his mother during his eastern travels.

the son of Robert Charles Dallas

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... Joe Murray delivers this, I have sent him & the boy back, pray shew the lad any kindness as he is my great favourite, I would have taken him on ..."

apostle

The wife of William Fletcher, Byron's valet

writer and actor