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- Collection: The 224 people named in the letters that Byron wrote during the Tour
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Frederick Howard, fifth earl of Carlisle
Politician, diplomat and Byron's legal guardian. On 22 March 1770 he married Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, 1753–1824.
Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford
See BLJ 3-199n.
Ganymede
divine hero from Troy
General Hildebrand Oakes
Byron to Captain Cary, September 18th 1809:
(Source: National Library of Scotland Acc.12604 / 4246; 1922 I 5-6; QI 57-8; BLJ I 224-5)
(Source: National Library of Scotland Acc.12604 / 4246; 1922 I 5-6; QI 57-8; BLJ I 224-5)
George Foresti
the British commercial agent in Yanina in 1810
George Hamilton Gordon, fourth earl of Aberdeen
"I have known a hundred instances of men setting out in couples, but not one of a similar return. Aberdeen’s party split; several voyagers at present have done the same. I am confident that twelve months of any given individual is perfect…
George Lamb
politician and writer -- Mentioned by Byron in the London Journal, Sunday, Dec 5, 1813. and 1811-05-15
George Sanders
Portrait painter
George Watson
Mentioned by Byron in 1810-08-23. Byron wrote a Latin epigraph which was engraved on a stone placed over his body in the Theseum. BLJ II-13n