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- Collection: The 224 people named in the letters that Byron wrote during the Tour
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Sir Hew Dalrymple, first baronet
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... and besides (though that is a secondary consideration) [Cintra] is remarkable as the scene of Sir H. D’s convention."
Sir John Carr, Knight Errant
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I have met Sir John Carr Knight errant at Seville & Cadiz, he is a pleasant man."
Sir John Jervis, Lord St Vincent
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "The night before I left it, I sat in the box {at the opera} with Admiral Cordova’s family, he is the commander whom Ld. St. Vincent defeated in 1797, and has an aged wife and a fine daughter. – – –"
Sir Phipps Hornby
The Captain of the Volage frigate. See 1811-06-19 Byron to Hobhouse.
Sir Walter Scott
poet and novelist
Sir William Gell
classical archaeologist and traveller
Socrates
A classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Spiro Saraci
Byron's servant who accompanied Byron upon his return to England
Stratford Canning, first Viscount de Redcliffe
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…
"Stratford Canning, cousin of the statesman George Canning, had been first secretary of the British Embassy in Constantinople…
Suleiman Aga
A Waywode (“Voyevode”) was a Turkish governor