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the prophet and founder of Islam

The central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God, and is regarded as a major Prophet in Islam

the daughter of John Hanson

Mentioned by Hobhouse in 1810-07-31a to Byron. John Galt, Scottish novelist and poet, traveled from Gibraltar to Malta with Hobhouse and Byron, whom he also met at Athens. BB 40n.
John Galt (1779-1839) a Scottish miscellaneous writer, was on a …

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-10-04. Ali Pasha's eldest son. BLJ 2-22n

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-10-04 -- an English radical orator

Mentioned by Byron in 1809-01-15 and HoBrowne 1810-11-05. "Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844) resided in Paris in the first years of the French Revolution. In 1793 he married Miss Sophia Coutts, daughter of Thomas Coutts, the banker. He formed a…

Mentioned in Byron to Hobhouse 1810-10-04

"Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)was the daughter of the earl of Stanhope and the niece of William Pitt, for whom she had kept house. Brilliant, eccentric, and romantic, she traveled to the Levant in 1810 and ultimately established herself in a…

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.…