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Byron's new "Tartar" at the Capuchin Convent

Byron to Hobhouse 1810-10-04.

One of three daughters of Tarsia Macri, Byron's Athens landlady. "Mrs. Tarsia Macri, [was the] widow of a former British Vice-Consul. The youngest, Teresa, then only 12, Byron celebrated in is poem to the 'Maid of Athens'." BLJ I-240n. See as well,…

Gen Oakes' apothecary. Byron to Hobhouse 1811-06-19.

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…

Lord Chancellor. Mentioned by Byron in 1811-01-10 to Hobhouse.

Mentioned by Hobhouse to Byron in 1810-07-31a, 1810-10-06 and Byron to WiClark 1813-11-29. "General Thomas Graham (1748-1843), later Baron Lynedoch, had come to Cadiz as lieutenant governor to command the British defense troops." BB 55n

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-09-25. "Thomas Hookham, Jr. (1787-1867) with his brother Edward conducted a publishing
and bookselling business at their father's circulating library at 15 Old Bond Street. He sold opera tickets it seems as well as books.…

Mentioned by Hobhouse in 1810-07-31a and by Byron in 1810-09-25. Thomas Macgill, a Malta resident who
had written a book on Turkey, LJ, 11:220. BB 41n

Poet, friend and biographer of Byron