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Byron's solicitor and life-long friend.

Lawyer and literary scholar

Mentioned by Byron in 1811-01-10: "John Fiott (I783-1866), a graduate of St. John’s College, Cambridge, toured the Near East in 1807-10 as a 'travelling Bachelor' of his college, collecting antiquities, including manuscripts, coins, and…

scholar and antiquary

Publisher

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, September 15th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 243-6; QI 56-7; BLJ I 223-4

Mentioned by Byron to Hanson 1809-07-13 and BLJ I-214n. Hobhouse to Byron 1810-12-10a, Byron to JnMurray 1812-10-23. Politician

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."

cobbler-poet

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