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Byron's moneylender

"Mr Jones one of Lord Byrons Annuitants has arrested me, and myself and my Daughter are now at a Spunging House in Whych Street No. 51. ..."

"It certainly appears very extraordinary that Lord Byron should not have made a sufficient provision for the payment of those people...."

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 Ottoman province under the rule of the Ali Pasha. Mentioned by Byron in 1809-11-12

Historian, whom Byron admired

Correspondent in 1809-06-25b and 1810-07-04a. He married the widow of Byron's cousin, Captain George Bettesworth. BLJ XI 158n. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85295250.html

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-05-03. Identified by Tim Webb.
See The Byron Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 49-58.

Dudu Roque, daughter of Phokion Roque,a French merchant living in Athens. Byron later used her name for the innocent buxom odalisque, whose bed Don Juan shared in the
harem. BLJ 2-13n

Byron names the swimming pool at Harrow Duck Puddle in 1811-07-07 to Henry Drury.

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; mentioned by Byron to FrHodgson 1810-10-03