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A club for Whigs. 60 St James's Street, London SW1A 1LN. London Journal 10 March 1814.

Byron to Hodgson 1809-07-16: "To-morrow we start to ride post near 400 miles as far as Gibraltar, where we embark for Melita and Byzantium."
ChMatthews to Byron facetiously 1809-06-30 I.e. Byzantium and Constantinople are the same place.

Hobhouse's London mailing address

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "Cadiz, sweet Cadiz! — it is the first spot in the creation. * * * The beauty of its streets and mansions is only excelled by the loveliness of its inhabitants."

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "My next stage is Cagliari in Sardinia where I shall be presented to his {S} Majesty, I have a most superb uniform {as a court dress,} indispensable in travelling. –"

Mentioned by Byron to Hobhouse in 1811-02-01

sometimes used for the town or Trinity College

Visited as of 1810-05-03. A promontory located 69 kilometres (43 mi) SSE of Athens, at the southernmost tip
of the Attica peninsula in Greece. Wiki

Named as being off the Cape by Byron in 1811-06-19 to Hobhouse. Next to the Sagres Point, on the so-called
Costa Vicentina (Vincentine Coast), is a headland in the municipality of Sagres, in the Algarve, southern Portugal. Wiki

Byron to Hobhouse 1810-08-23. In 1658, a French Capuchin monastery was founded by the site; in 1669 the monastery succeeded in purchasing the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, then being called the "Lantern of Demosthenes" after the famous Athenian…