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Mentioned by Byron 1811-01-20 to FrHodgson

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)

An Irish peer and colonial governor, styled Viscount Westport until 1800 and Earl of Altamont from 1800 to 1809.

Byron's mention of Horace's "Nil Admirari"

Hookham's, located at Bond Street, is mentioned by Byron to Hobhouse in 1811-05-15. A major shopping street in the West
End of London that runs north-south through Mayfair between Oxford Street and Piccadilly. Wiki

a priestess of Aphrodite in Sestos -- See Byron to HeDrury 1810-05-03 where she appears as "Paradise"

Lord Chancellor

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.

Architectural writer and antiquary

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…