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John Cam Hobhouse's step-mother

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.

the wife of James Ridgeway, bookseller

Printer, bookseller

Printer

Unidentified. Marchand speculates that he might be the Scotch surgeon Byron mentions elsewhere in the letter to Hobhouse of 1810-11-26. BLJ II-29n

A classical Greek Athenian philosopher

Prince Français, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano, younger brother of Napoleon

Mentioned by Byron to Hobhouse 1810-11-26: "'Long' Baillie, a friend of Hobhouse and Matthews, had been at Harrow with Byron." BLJ II-28n.
"David (Long) Baillie, at Harrow with Byron, was to travel with Hobhouse on several occasions. He and…

Mentioned by Byron in 1808-04-15 and 1810-11-26: "Sir G. W. was probably Sir Godfrey Webster; Sir B. G. was Sir B. Graham. They and Captain Wallace were companions of Byron’s roistering days in 1808. See April 15, 1808, to …