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Nothing further is known about Dr Almirante. [PSC]

"... a passenger on the Pylades sloop-of-war when they left Athens for Smyrna in March 1810." BLJ II-7n

Headmaster of Harrow, succeeding Dr Joseph Drury in 1805, and dean of Peterborough. See the portrait of Pomposus in 1807-03-06 and BLJ I-111n. Also mentioned by Byron in 1808-11-27 to FrHodgson

Physician to Byron

Dudu Roque, daughter of Phokion Roque,a French merchant living in Athens. Byron later used her name for the innocent buxom odalisque, whose bed Don Juan shared in the
harem. BLJ 2-13n

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

Correspondent in 1809-06-25b and 1810-07-04a. He married the widow of Byron's cousin, Captain George Bettesworth. BLJ XI 158n. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85295250.html

Historian, whom Byron admired

Byron's moneylender

Byron to John Hanson, September 29th 1809:
(Source: text from B.L.Egerton 2611 ff.149-51; BLJ I 225)