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1810-06-28 Byron makes light of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's praise of St Paul's over St Sophia's.

International banker with agents in Malta and Constantinople: BLJ 1-205n.

Hargreaves Hanson was the eldest son of John Hanson, Byron’s lawyer.

the daughter of John Hanson

Harrow on the Hill, Greater London

Visited 1810-05-03 the day of the famous swim. Dardanelles, formerly known as Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. Wiki

Classical scholar, son of the Revd Joseph Drury (1751–1834). Henry Drury was Byron’s first Harrow tutor.

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "So Ld. Grey is married to a rustic, well done! if I wed I will bring you home a sultana with half a score cities for a dowry, and reconcile you to an Ottoman daughter in law with a bushel of pearls…

Architectural writer and antiquary

John Cam's younger brother. Henry Hobhouse (1791-1868) went east to work for Palmer and Company, a commercial house in Calcutta, in 1814. That same year he married Mary Anne, daughter of John Palmer.