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- Collection: The 224 people named in the letters that Byron wrote during the Tour
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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. – – –"
Signorita Cordova
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "Signorita Cordova the girl is very pretty in the Spanish style, in my {opinion} by no means inferior {to the English} in charms, and certainly superior in fascination."
Signor Cordova
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "– Miss C. & her little brother understood a little French, and after regretting my ignorance of the Spanish she proposed to become my preceptress in that language; ..."
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."
Jane Kinsey (Saunders) Fane, Lady Westmoreland
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I have not yet been to Africa, the wind is contrary, but I dined yesterday at Algesiras with Lady Westmoreland where I met General Castanos the celebrated Spanish leader in the late & present war,…
Francisco Janier de Castanos, first duke of Bailén
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809:" ... I dined yesterday at Algesiras with Lady Westmoreland where I met General Castanos the celebrated Spanish leader in the late & present war, ..."
Admiral John Child Purvis
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... Admiral Purvis with whom I dined at Cadiz gave me {a passage} in a frigate to Gibraltar, but we have no ship of war destined for Malta at present ..."
Joe Murray
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... you shall hear from me on our route, Joe Murray delivers this, I have sent him & the boy back, pray shew the lad any kindness as he is my great favourite, I would have taken him on ..."
Robert Rushton
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... Joe Murray delivers this, I have sent him & the boy back, pray shew the lad any kindness as he is my great favourite, I would have taken him on ..."
Henry Edward Yelverton, Baron Grey de Ruthyn
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "So Ld. Grey is married to a rustic, well done! if I wed I will bring you home a sultana with half a score cities for a dowry, and reconcile you to an Ottoman daughter in law with a bushel of pearls…