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Byron's companion

One of Byron's Athenian friends at the Capuchin Convent

Mentioned by Byron in 1801-11-26 and 1813-11-17. John Cam is his eldest son. See 1810-12-10a. "Benjamin Hobhouse (1757-1831), the son of a Bristol merchant, served as M.P. until 1818. He was made a baronet in 1812. The senior Hobhouse was concerned…

Byron’s first cousin, daughter of Sophia Trevanion and Vice–Admiral John Byron RN.

Byron's friend

writer and judge

Byron to FrWerry 1810-12-10. "Byron and Hobhouse stayed for more than a month with Werry, British Consul-General in Smyrna, on their way to Constantinople. (See Marchand, Vol I, pp. 234-6.). When they left, Mrs. Werry cut off a lock of Byron's hair.…

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, ..."

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-09-25 to Hobhouse, to ThMoore 1813-08-28. See BLJ 3-102n for a translation of Maxime 85 (which offers an explanation of Byron’s wordplay).

Politician, diplomat and Byron's legal guardian. On 22 March 1770 he married Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, 1753–1824.