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scholar and antiquary

"Mr Paul, a cousin of the British Vice-Consul Stranè, was the Imperial Consul in Patras." BLJ II-7n

The Cogia Bachi was a Greek provincial official under the Turks.

"... Nourse and Darwin had been at Athens scribbling all sorts of ribaldry over my old apartment, where Sligo before my arrival had added to your B.A. an A.S.S. ..."

"... a passenger on the Pylades sloop-of-war when they left Athens for Smyrna in March 1810." BLJ II-7n

Professional Boxer and heavyweight champion of England, Byron’s boxing instructor.

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The young companion of Byron mentioned in the letter to Byron by John Jackson of 1808-03-25. See as well 1808-07-20 Byron to ElMassingberd and 1810-07-29 to Hobhouse.

"... in Scrope Davies circle of drinking companions and men about town. Byron mentioned him in “Detached Thoughts”, No. 21, as 'then intimate with most of the more dissipated young men of the day'. "BLJ 1-165n

Cocoa-Tree Club, St. James's St — Was the Tory Chocolate House of Queen Anne's reign, the Whig Coffee House being the St. James's, lower down in the same street. http://www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/dickens-cocoatreeclub.htm
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