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"Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)was the daughter of the earl of Stanhope and the niece of William Pitt, for whom she had kept house. Brilliant, eccentric, and romantic, she traveled to the Levant in 1810 and ultimately established herself in a…

Mentioned by Byron in 1811-06-19, to ElLamb 1812-11-06. "Webster had married, in 1810, Lady Frances Caroline Annesley, daughter of Arthur, first Earl of Mountnorris and eighth Viscount Valentia." BLJ II-126n.

See 1809-06-22 to Matthews and 1811-11-02 to Hobhouse for references to "hyacinths." BLJ II-14n

Byron dispatched men to Keratia for horses 1810-07-29. See 1810-11-26

One of the three Macri sisters of Athens

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-11-14 and 1811-01-10: "Baron Haller, an architect and archaeologist, also had talent as an artist, and produced many drawings and landscape paintings of Greece." BLJ II-33n

Was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-06-28 to his mother. Commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. wiki

cobbler-poet

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "I have seen Sir John Carr at Seville and Cadiz, and, like Swift’s barber, have been down on my knees to beg he would not put me into black and white."