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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

aide-de-camp to General Oakes, Military commander in Malta

Commander of the Black Joke lugger

mentioned in 1810-05-05 to FrHodgson

"... in Scrope Davies circle of drinking companions and men about town. Byron mentioned him in “Detached Thoughts”, No. 21, as 'then intimate with most of the more dissipated young men of the day'. "BLJ 1-165n

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, November 12th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 246-57; QI 58-63; BLJ I 226-31);
classical topographer and numismatist.

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…

The young companion of Byron mentioned in the letter to Byron by John Jackson of 1808-03-25. See as well 1808-07-20 Byron to ElMassingberd and 1810-07-29 to Hobhouse.