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writer and judge

Was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires

Diplomatist and army officer. Mentioned by Byron to Hobhouse in 1811-07-31a and by Hobhouse in 1811-08-02: "Thomas Bruce (1766-1841), seventh earl of Elgin and eleventh earl of Kincardine, was serving as ambassador to the Ottoman Porte when under his…

Byron's Greek servant with whom he returned to England

Byron's servant who accompanied Byron upon his return to England

The travelling companion of Lady Hester Stanhope. See 1810-07-31a JoHobhouse to Byron and 1811-06-19 Byron to Hobhouse. "Michael Bruce (1787-1861), then traveling in the East, had become Lady Hester Stanhope's lover at Malta. On returning to Europe,…

an early Harrow friend of Byron.

Mentioned by Byron in 1811-06-19, to ElLamb 1812-11-06. "Webster had married, in 1810, Lady Frances Caroline Annesley, daughter of Arthur, first Earl of Mountnorris and eighth Viscount Valentia." BLJ II-126n.

Father of Frances Webster

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