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Professional Boxer and heavyweight champion of England, Byron’s boxing instructor.

"... a passenger on the Pylades sloop-of-war when they left Athens for Smyrna in March 1810." BLJ II-7n

"... Nourse and Darwin had been at Athens scribbling all sorts of ribaldry over my old apartment, where Sligo before my arrival had added to your B.A. an A.S.S. ..."

The Cogia Bachi was a Greek provincial official under the Turks.

"Mr Paul, a cousin of the British Vice-Consul Stranè, was the Imperial Consul in Patras." BLJ II-7n

scholar and antiquary

Architectural writer and antiquary

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-07-29 and probably visited.

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-07-29 as the location of Hobhouse en route to England. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Wiki