INDEX
Adam, Sir F., High Commissioner of the Ionian islands:
his tribute to Byron’s character, [202]
Agraffa, the scene of Cariascachi’s depredations, [162]
Allegra, Byron’s natural daughter:
her life and death, [22];
Byron’s feelings for, [35]
Americans, Byron on, [131]
Anatoliko, Turkish abandonment of, [68]
Argostoli, Byron arrives at, [63]
Astarte, by Earl of Lovelace. See [Lovelace]
Augusta, Stanzas and Epistle to, [290], [324], [364]
Barnard, Lady Anne, on Byron’s married life, [329] et seq.
Beecher Stowe scandals, [318], [326]
Bentham, Jeremy, and Byron, [108] et seq., [119];
amusing anecdote about, [126] et seq.
Berry, Messrs., Byron’s wine merchants:
register of Byron’s weight, [19]
Bible, The, Scott’s lines on, [73]
Blackwood’s Magazine on Byron, [50], [100], [315], [316]
Blaquière, Captain, [48];
sails for England, [64];
describes the return of Hatajè to her parents, [137];
eulogy on Byron, [176], [177], [199] et seq.
Blessington, Lady, Conversations of Lord Byron:
describes Byron, [5], [6];
character and reminiscences of Byron, [34] et seq., [40], [41]
Bolivar, The, Byron’s yacht, sold to Lord Blessington, [32];
her end, [33]
Botzari, Marco, [48];
his death, [66]
Bowring, Mr., hon. secretary to the Greek Committee, [126]
Bride of Abydos, The:
what the poem reveals, [240], [259], [260], [262], [265]
Brougham, Mr., spreads the scandal, [340]
Broughton, Lord (see [Hobhouse, John Cam]), Recollections of a Long Life, [201], [247] n., [339] n., [340] n., [359] n.
Browne, Hamilton, goes with Byron to Greece, [47], [48];
Byron’s illness, [62];
arrives at Cephalonia, [67]
Bruno, Dr., travels with Byron to Greece, [47], [48];
Byron’s illness, [59], [62];
medical discussions with Dr. Stravolemo, [79];
his medical treatment of Byron, [124], [163], [166], [168], [169], [193] et seq.;
accompanies Byron’s body to England, [202];
reply to Fletcher’s statement, [403] et seq.;
Dr. Millingen on, [405] et seq.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, [291]
Burdett, Sir Francis, [11], [208]
Byron, George Gordon (sixth Lord):
arrival and habits of life at Pisa, [3], [11], [20-22];
personal appearance, [4-7];
evidence as to his lameness, [7], [8], [191];
portraits of, [9], [10];
inherits the Noel property on death of Lady Noel, [10], [11];
the society and influence of the Shelleys, [11] et seq.;
discussion on the most perfect ode produced, [11], [12], [58];
religion, [13] et seq.;
habit of vaunting his vices, [17], [18], [78];
abstinence, [18];
weight register, [19];
fracas at Pisa and Montenero, [21], [22];
his natural daughter Allegra, [22] et seq.;
effect of Allegra’s death on, [24];
dealings with Leigh Hunt, [26] et seq.;
death of Shelley and Williams, [29], [30];
refuses Shelley’s legacy of £2,000, [32];
leaves Pisa with Countess Guiccioli and goes to Albaro, [32];
sells his yacht The Bolivar, [33];
feelings on his own position, and desire for reconciliation with his wife, [33] et seq.;
admiration for Sir Walter Scott and Shelley, [35];
liaison with Countess Guiccioli, [37], [379], [380];
conduct after separation from his wife, [39] et seq.;
Lady Blessington on, [40];
anomalies, [41];
opinion of his wife, [42];
admiration for his sister, [42];
affection for his child Ada, [43];
craving for celebrity, [45];
takes up the Greek cause, [46];
travels to Greece with money, arms, and retinue, [47];
arrives at Argostoli, [47], [65];
practical sympathy, [48], [67];
an interesting interview with, [48] et seq.;
visits the Fountain of Arethusa, [51-53];
attacks of illness, [51], [52], [59], [62], [63];
excursion to the School of Homer, [54-57];
on the Waverley Novels, [57];
at Vathi, [58];
admiration for Southey, Gifford, and others, [59], [60];
reception at Santa Eufemia, [60];
on actors, [61];
journey over the Black Mountain to Argostoli, [63];
action with regard to dissensions in Greece, [64] et seq.;
resides at Metaxata, [67];
advances £4,000 to the Greeks, [67] et seq.;
appeal to the Greek nation, [69];
motives in coming to Greece, [70], [71], [94];
discussions with Dr. Kennedy on religion, [72] et seq.;
favourite books, [79], [82], [100];
helps to rescue workmen, [80];
sails with money from Zante for Missolonghi to join and help the Greek fleet, [81], [82];
adventurous voyage, [83-86];
reception at Missolonghi, [88];
releases Turkish prisoners, [89], [90], [132];
preparations against Lepanto, [91];
takes 500 Suliotes into his pay, [91];
and Major Parry, [92] et seq., [143];
Turks blockade Missolonghi, [96];
verses on his birthday, [96];
presentiment that he would never leave Greece, and his intentions, [97];
some reminiscences of, [98] et seq.;
wonderful memory, [102];
a popular idol in Greece, [105];
relations with Mavrocordato, [106], [116];
and Colonel Stanhope, [107] et seq., [120], [121], [122];
Jeremy Bentham, [108];
dealings with the press, [112], [113];
views of the politics of Greece, [114];
effective mode of reproof, [117];
on the useless supplies sent by the London Committee, [119];
abandonment of the Lepanto project, [121];
illness and feelings as to death, [122-125];
dismisses the Suliotes, [125], [142];
anecdote of Jerry Bentham’s Cruise, [126] et seq.;
interest in the working classes, [130];
his politics, [131];
on America, [131];
the story of Hatajè, [133] et seq.;
Turkish brig ashore, [139];
firmness and tact in difficulties, [140], [156] et seq.;
desertion of the English artificers, [142], [143];
improvement in his health, [144];
favourite dogs, [145], [227];
daily life, [145], [147];
the unhealthy state of Missolonghi, [146];
bodyguard, [146];
indisposition of, [148];
peasants’ respect for, [149];
no desire for self-aggrandizement in Greece, [151] et seq.;
Greek loan raised in London, [156];
receives the freedom of Missolonghi, [157];
Cariascachi’s treachery, [159] et seq.;
detailed accounts of his last illness, and death, [163] et seq., [192] et seq., [403] et seq.;
eulogies on, [174] et seq., [201], [205];
Trelawny’s opinion of, [178] et seq.;
effect of his death on Greece, [183] et seq., [201];
the funeral oration, [185];
body conveyed to Zante, and thence to England, [198] et seq.;
arrival of the body in England, [202-204];
character sketch by Colonel Stanhope, [205] et seq.;
funeral procession and burial at Hucknall-Torkard, [215], [216];
what the poems reveal, [219] et seq.;
infatuation for Mary Chaworth, [220] et seq.;
mystery of the Thyrza poems, [221] et seq.;
romantic attachment to Edleston, [222], [223], [230], [231];
anecdote of Mary Chaworth’s gift, [224];
his mother’s death, [227];
on death of his friends, [227], [228];
Childe Harold, [233], [236], [238], [287], [363];
and the Hon. Mrs. George Lamb, [235];
disbelief in existence after death, [239], [240];
in great dejection writes The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, and The Corsair, [240], [256] et seq., [277], [278], [281], [303];
and Lady Webster, [240], [241], [259];
persuaded to give up going abroad, [241], [242];
what he wishes the world to believe about Mary Chaworth, [244], [245];
their meetings after her separation from her husband, [246], [258] et seq.;
remorse and parting, [249];
suspense and fear preceding the birth of Medora, [253], [260];
reason of separation from his wife, [255];
reproaches Mary Chaworth, [256], [257];
device for a seal, [261], [267];
remarkable letter to Moore, [266];
birth of Medora, [268];
Lara, [268], [271], [273];
partly the cause of the scandal about Mrs. Leigh, [270];
effect of Miss Milbanke’s first refusal, [271] et seq.;
Harmodia, [274], [275];
Don Juan, [276], [304] et seq.;
Hebrew Melodies, [277];
Herod’s Lament for Mariamne, [278];
his significant communication to his lawyer, [279];
verses to Mary Chaworth, [280], [281];
fear of disgrace, [281];
important correspondence with Murray, [282], [283];
last meeting with Mary Chaworth, [283];
how the secret was kept, [285];
verses to his sister, [286], [287];
The Dream, [289], [290];
Stanzas to Augusta, [290], [364];
Manfred, [291] et seq., [328], [364];
his treatment of the scandal, [291], [317], [320];
The Duel, [293], [298];
The Lament of Tasso, [297];
Stanzas to the Po, [298] et seq., [370];
Last Words on Greece, [311];
on his separation from his wife, [315] et seq.;
Mrs. Leigh’s so-called confession, [319] et seq., [356] et seq., [368];
Epistle to Augusta, [324];
story of his married life, [329] et seq.;
Sir Ralph Noel requires a separation, [339];
Lady Jersey’s party, [352];
parts for the last time from his sister, [352], [366], [392];
consents to separation from his wife, [352];
Lady Byron’s written statement of complaints, [353];
letter to Lady Byron as to his will, [355];
Moore’s life of, [365] et seq.;
writes to Moore about the scandal, [367];
letter supposed to be written to Mary Chaworth, [368] et seq.;
letter compared with one to his sister, [372];
writes to Lady Byron as to the memoir of his life, [382];
asks Lady Byron to make provision for Mrs. Leigh’s children, [385], [388];
Goethe on, [400], [401]
Byron, Lord: Letters and Journals of, by Rowland Prothero, [70] n., [256] n., [260] n.;
Life of, by Tom Moore, [365];
Reminiscences of, by G. Finlay, [201];
Sketch of, by Colonel Stanhope, [201]
Byron, Captain George (afterwards seventh Lord), [337], [338]
Byron, Hon. Augusta. See [Leigh, Hon. Mrs. Augusta]
Byron, Hon. Augusta Ada (afterwards Lady King and Countess of Lovelace), Byron’s daughter:
separation from her father, [43], [44], [288];
Hobhouse’s opinion of, [206], [207];
her health, [363]
Byron, Lady (formerly Miss Milbanke):
property and settlements on marriage, [10];
married life, [36], [329] et seq.;
her husband’s desire for reconciliation, [36], [46], [206];
on Byron’s religion, [77], [78];
the result of first refusal of Byron, [206], [272];
If I am not happy, it will be my own fault, [216];
on Byron’s poetry, [219];
on his indiscreet confidences, [270];
her conduct after the birth of Medora, [285], [289], [321] et seq.;
interview with Mrs. Leigh at Reigate, [324];
Mrs. Leigh’s long visit to, [336];
birth of a daughter, and her husband’s treatment, [337];
steps for a separation taken, [338], [341], [351], [352], [357], [358];
her treatment of the abstracted letters, [340], [357];
attempts to extract a confession from Mrs. Leigh, [322], [324], [341], [357], [361] et seq.;
letters to Mrs. Leigh, [342], [343], [357];
Hodgson’s appeal to, [346] et seq.;
text of the signed statement of her conduct, [353] et seq.;
Colonel Doyle’s advice, [360];
her husband’s letter to Mary Chaworth, [368] et seq.;
and the prospects of Mrs. Leigh’s children, [380], [385];
confides in Mrs. Villiers, [381];
letter from Byron, [382];
the weakness of her position, [383], [384];
Cockburn’s opinion of, [387];
Lord Lovelace on, [389] et seq.
Campbell, Dr., Presbyterian divine, [55]
Campbell, Thomas, Battle of the Baltic, [60]
Cariascachi, a Greek chieftain, his treachery, [159] et seq.
Chaworth, Mary (afterwards Mrs. John Musters):
Byron’s infatuation for, and references in his poems to, [220] et seq.;
unhappy married life and separation, [243] et seq.;
weakness and repentance, [245] et seq.;
breakdown of health, and reconciliation with her husband, [251];
describes her own character, [252];
birth of Medora, [254], [268];
how the secret was kept by Mrs. Leigh, [255], [285], [287], [317], [321], [362] et seq.;
letters to Byron, [267], [368] et seq.;
last parting with Byron, [283]
Childe Harold, what the poem reveals, [228], [229], [232] et seq., [287], [363]
Clairmont, Claire:
her anxiety about her daughter Allegra, [22], [23];
her conduct to Byron, [24], [25]
Clare, Lord, and Byron, [208]
Clermont, Mrs., [337];
her abstraction of Byron’s letters, [340] et seq., [378]
Cockburn, Sir Alexander, Lord Chief Justice, and the Byron mystery, [358];
his opinion of Lady Byron, [387]
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, on identity of Byron’s infatuation, [233], [240], [260]
Colocotroni, one of the turbulent capitani, [153]
Congreve rockets, [92], [93]
Corsair, The, what the poem reveals, [240], [262] et seq., [277], [279]
Dacre, Lord, [11]
Davies, Scrope B., [98], [352];
Byron’s letter to, [227]
Don Juan, what the poem reveals, [219], [276], [304] et seq.
Dowden, Professor, Life of Shelley: on Byron, [13];
the death of Allegra, [23]
Doyle, Colonel Francis:
consulted by Lady Byron as to a separation, [338];
signs Lady Byron’s statement of her conduct, [355];
advises Lady Byron to obtain a confession from Mrs. Leigh, [360], [361], [397]
Dragomestri, Byron’s visit to, [85]
Dream, The, what the poem reveals, [289], [290]
Duel, The, the poem’s application to Mary Chaworth, [298]
Edleston, a chorister at Cambridge:
Byron saves his life and forms a romantic attachment to, [222];
his death, [230], [231]
Elphinstone, Miss Mercer, and Byron, [311]
Fenton, Captain, [180]
Finlay, George, History of Greece:
the siege of Missolonghi, [70];
Byron’s mode of life at Missolonghi, [98] et seq., [148];
on Byron, [176];
Reminiscences of Byron, [201];
Byron’s last illness, [405]
Fletcher, Byron’s valet:
Byron’s last ride, [164];
ignorance of the doctors, [165], [166];
Byron’s last illness and death, [170], [171], [252];
his statement, [192] et seq.;
accompanies Byron’s body to England, [202];
Dr. Bruno’s reply to the statement, [403] et seq.;
Dr. Millingen’s account of Byron’s last illness, [405] et seq.
Florida, the brig, brings the loan to Greece, and conveys back Byron’s body, [199] et seq.
Freiber, Dr., German physician, attends Byron, [169]
Gamba, Count Pietro:
on Byron’s religious opinions, [16], [17];
fracas at Pisa, [20];
goes to Albaro, [32];
travels with Byron to Greece, [47], [48];
on Byron’s perseverance and discernment, [65];
on Byron’s favourite reading, [79];
Byron’s practical sympathy, [80];
accompanies Byron to Missolonghi, [83];
taken prisoner by the Turks, [84];
release and arrival at Missolonghi, [85];
the General Assembly at Missolonghi, [88];
Byron’s interview with the two privateer sailors, [91];
becomes editor of the Greek Telegraph, [114];
Byron’s illness, [121], [143], [148], [163] et seq.;
arrest of English officers, [157];
Byron’s funeral, [184];
conveys Byron’s body to Zante, [198]
Gamba, Count Ruggiero, Byron’s neighbour at Pisa, [3];
leaves Pisa and goes to Montenero, [21];
ordered to leave Montenero, [22];
goes to Albaro, [32];
and Byron, [212]
Gamba, Teresa. See [Guiccioli, Countess]
Gell, Sir William, his writings, [100], [101] n.
George IV. makes ‘equivocation’ the fashion, [17], [18];
and Sir Walter Scott, [53]
Giaour, The, what the poem reveals, [240], [256], [257], [265]
Gifford, William, Byron’s opinion of, [51], [60]
Greece:
Byron sails for, [47];
state of the country and army, [64], [87] et seq., [118], [180];
Byron advances £4,000, [67];
Byron’s appeal to the nation, [69], [70];
preparations against Lepanto, [91];
honours offered to Byron, [151], [152];
Congress at Salona, [153];
Greek loan raised in London, [156];
effect of Byron’s death on, [175] et seq.
Greece, History of, by G. Finlay, [70];
by Mitford, [100]
Greek Chronicle:
Byron’s support, [108];
suppression of, [112], [113]
Greek Telegraph, [103], [113]
Guiccioli, Countess, daughter of Count Ruggiero Gamba:
Byron’s neighbour at Pisa, [3], [4], [20];
describes Byron, [7] et seq.;
on the characters of Shelley and Byron, [14], [15];
on Byron’s conduct towards Allegra, [23];
on Byron’s religion, [74], [78];
anecdote about Mary Chaworth’s ring, [224];
Lady of the Land, [298], [301], [370];
and Mrs. Leigh, [379]
Hancock, Charles, Byron’s banker, [82]
Hanson, John, Byron’s solicitor, [241], [345], [346]
Harmodia, [274], [275]
Hatajè, Byron’s kindness to, [133] et seq.
Hay, Captain, fracas at Pisa, [20], [21]
Hebrew Melodies, [277]
Hercules, the, an English brig:
Byron and his suite sail to Greece in it, [47];
Byron lives on board, [64], [65]
Herod’s Lament for Mariamne, [278]
Hesketh, Mr., [158], [159]
Heywood, Sergeant, consulted by Lady Byron, [338]
Hobhouse, John Cam (afterwards Lord Broughton):
and Byron, [35];
persuades Byron to burn his journal, [102];
destroys one of Byron’s poems, [208];
Byron’s funeral, [215], [216];
and Lady Byron, [216], [320];
life-long friend of Mrs. Leigh, [319].
See also [Broughton, Lord]
Hodgson, captain of the Florida, [203]
Hodgson, Rev. Francis:
consulted by Mrs. Leigh, [344] et seq.;
appeals to Lady Byron, [346] et seq.
Hodgson, Rev. F., Memoir of, [73] n.
Holmes, Mr. James, his portrait of Byron, [9]
Hours of Idleness, what the poem reveals, [220]
Hucknall-Torkard, Byron’s burial place, [44]
Humphreys, Captain, on state of Greece, [180]
Hunt, Sir Aubrey de Vere, [102]
Hunt, Leigh:
the story of his literary and money relations with Byron, [26] et seq.;
Byron’s opinion of, [31]
Ireland, Dr., Dean of Westminster, refuses burial of Byron in Westminster Abbey, [203]
Jersey, Countess of, her party in honour of Byron, [352]
Kean, Edmund, actor, Byron’s opinion of, [61]
Kemble, John, actor, Byron’s opinion of, [61]
Kennedy, Dr., Scottish medical man:
tries to ‘convert’ Byron, [72] et seq.;
and Hatajè, [136];
Lady Byron on, [77]
King, Lady. See [Byron, Hon. Augusta Ada]
Kinnaird, the Hon. Douglas, Byron’s opinion of, [208]
Knox, Captain, [51]
Knox, Mrs., [50], [54]
Lamb, Hon. Mrs. George, and Byron, [235]
Lamb, Lady Caroline, spreads the Byron scandal, [270], [317], [340], [390]
Lambro, a Suliote chief, [156], [164]
Lara, what the poem reveals, [268], [271], [273]
Leigh, Hon. Mrs. Augusta, half-sister of Lord Byron:
influence over her brother, [42], [73], [245], [261];
and his poetry, [103];
wishes him to go abroad, [242];
first introduction to, and close intimacy with, Mary Chaworth, [250];
loyalty to her brother and Mary Chaworth, [255], [287], [317], [321];
letters from her brother about Mary Chaworth, [258], [267], [268];
simulated confinement and convalescence, [269];
her brother’s conduct gives colour to the scandal, [270], [279], [285];
letters to Hodgson on the secret, [272], [344] et seq.;
spends a month at Newstead with her brother, [279];
the difficulties of keeping the secret, [285], [317], [362] et seq.;
lines in Childe Harold referring to, [287];
the so-called confession, [289], [322], [324], [325], [341], [357], [361] et seq.;
Stanzas to Augusta, [290], [364];
Lord Lovelace’s opinion of her character, [294], [295];
the accusation dealt with in detail, [318] et seq.;
Lord Stanhope and Frances, Lady Shelley on, [318];
the story of her life, [319];
Hobhouse’s advice to, [320];
difficult position with Lady Byron, [321], [341], [362], [367];
her predicament owing to the adoption of Medora, [322];
Epistle to Augusta, [324];
letters to Hodgson on her brother’s marriage, [332] et seq.;
a long visit to her brother and Lady Byron, [336];
Lady Byron’s feelings towards her, [336], [337], [342], [343], [360];
Lady Byron’s confinement, [337];
Mrs. Clermont’s treachery, [341];
Lady Jersey’s party, [352];
parts for ever from her brother, [352];
Lady Byron’s written statement, [353] et seq.;
letters to Hodgson on her brother, [362];
her line of conduct to Lady Byron, [362] et seq.;
Moore on Byron’s feelings towards her, [366];
pretends that her brother’s letter to Mary Chaworth was written to herself, [368] et seq.;
a genuine letter, [372];
reply to Lady Byron’s advice, [375] et seq.;
her children’s prospects discussed with Lady Byron, [380], [385];
Lady Byron’s request, [380];
Lord Lovelace on, [389] et seq.
Lepanto, preparations against, [91]
Liberal, The, its unsuccessful career, [31], [32]
Lion, Byron’s favourite dog, [145], [146]
Londos, General Andrea, and Byron, [155]
Lovelace, Earl of, Astarte:
Byron’s Thyrza, [234] n.;
accusations against Mrs. Leigh, [249], [269] et seq., [287], [288], [318], [321], [322], [338], [341], [362], [366] et seq., [368] et seq., [385] et seq., [390];
describes Mrs. Leigh’s character, [294];
Manfred, the key of the mystery, [326] et seq., [364];
Byron’s mutability, [339];
Lady Byron’s written statement, [353] et seq.;
important letters from Byron, [368] et seq., [385], [386];
and Lady Byron, [387]
Lushington, Dr.:
advises Lady Byron, [338], [351], [352], [357], [358], [383], [387];
his opinion on Byron’s letters abstracted by Mrs. Clermont, [341];
signs Lady Byron’s statement, [353] et seq.
Magdalen, a fragment, [269]
Maitland, Sir Thomas, High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, [52], [61];
character and death, [115], [116]
Manfred, the supposed key to the mystery, [291] et seq., [328], [364]
Marino Faliero, [100]
Marshall, Mrs. Julian, Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, [178], [180]
Masi, Sergeant-Major, fracas at Pisa, [20], [21]
Matthews, Charles Skinner, one of Byron’s best friends, his death, [227]
Mavrocordato, Prince, Governor-General of Western Greece:
and Byron, [66], [68], [70], [202];
brings the Greek fleet to Missolonghi, [81];
Byron’s arrival at Missolonghi, [85];
Byron’s interview with two privateer sailors, [91];
his jealousy, [105], [106];
infraction of neutrality in Ithaca, [115];
Byron’s opinion of, [116];
opposition by Colonel Stanhope, [119], [153];
and Odysseus, [153] et seq.;
Byron’s last illness and death, [164] et seq.;
effect of Byron’s death on, [177], [202];
Trelawny’s opinion of, [179], [180];
his efforts for Greece, [181];
issues a proclamation on Byron’s death, [183], [184]
Medora, birth of, [254], [268];
Childe Harold, [288];
adoption by Mrs. Leigh, [322]
Medwin, Captain Thomas:
his description of Byron, [4], [6], [11];
on Byron’s life at Pisa, [20];
The Angler in Wales, [33] n.
Melbourne, Lady, persuades Byron not to go abroad, [242]
Metaxata, Byron’s residence at, [65], [79]
Meyer, Jean Jacques, editor of the Greek Chronicle, [112]
Milbanke, Miss. See [Byron, Lady]
Milbanke, Sir Ralph, his property, [10]
Millingen, Dr.:
on Byron’s character, [95];
on Parry, [96];
Byron a favourite in Greece, [105], [177];
on the Greek press, [113];
Byron’s illness, [124];
Byron’s kind treatment of Hatajè, [133] et seq.;
on Cariascachi’s treachery, [161];
on Byron’s unhappiness and anxieties, [162];
attends Byron in his last illness and death, [167] et seq., [190], [193] et seq., [403] et seq.;
on Mavrocordato, [181]
Missolonghi:
blockade of, [66], [96];
Turks retire from, [70];
Greek squadron at, [81];
description of, [87];
Byron’s arrival and life at, [88], [99];
release of Turkish prisoners, [133];
Turkish brig-of-war runs ashore off, [139];
effect of Byron’s death, [175], [183] et seq.
Mitford, William, History of Greece, [100]
Monthly Literary Recreations, [101] n.
Monthly Review, Byron’s reviews in, [100], [101] n.
Moore, Thomas:
letters from Shelley and Byron, [13], [14], [266];
and Byron, [36];
on the Thyrza poems, [229];
Byron’s love for Mary Chaworth, [238], [246], [266], [279];
criticism on his Life of Byron, [365]
Moore, Sir John, ode on the death of, [58]
Muir, Dr., principal medical officer at Cephalonia, [82]
Muir, General Skey, [82]
Murray, John, Byron’s publisher:
Byron’s letters to, [30], [31];
Childe Harold, [50];
asks for Byron to be buried in Westminster Abbey, [203];
and Mrs. Leigh, [269];
Byron’s copyrights, [281];
Epistle to Augusta, [324]
Musters, John, husband of Mary Chaworth:
the ring incident and engagement, [224], [225];
separation from his wife, [245];
behaviour to his wife, [246];
reconciliation, [251];
cuts down the peculiar diadem of trees, [289]
Napier, Colonel, British Resident Governor of Argostoli, [48], [80]
Newstead Abbey: sale of, [99];
Byron’s visits, [226], [227]
Noel, Lady, Byron’s mother-in-law:
Byron inherits the Noel property on her death, [10];
her bequest of Byron’s portrait, [43] n.;
advice as to her daughter’s separation from Byron, [338];
and Mrs. Leigh, [362]
Noel, Sir Ralph, writes to Byron requiring a separation, [339]
O’Doherty, Ensign, Byron’s opinion of his poetry, [100]
Odysseus, Greek insurgent leader:
his opposition to Mavrocordato, [153];
and Trelawny, [179], [180]
Osborne, Lord Sidney, and Sir Thomas Maitland, [115];
goes to Missolonghi, [198];
eulogy of Byron’s conduct in Greece, [201]
Parry, Major:
his arrival at Missolonghi, [91], [92];
his peculiarities, [92] et seq.;
practical joke on, [95];
on Byron’s intentions in Greece, [97], [98];
on the relationship between Mavrocordato and Byron, [116];
on Byron’s mode of reproof, [117];
account of Byron’s illness, [121];
anecdote of Jerry Bentham’s Cruise, [126];
Turkish brig-of-war ashore, [139];
artillery at Missolonghi, [144];
on Byron’s mode of life, [145];
on Byron’s power in Greece, [151], [152];
Byron’s last illness and death, [164] et seq., [196];
his opinion of Byron, [175]
Phillips, Thomas, his portrait of Byron, [9]
Pigot, Elizabeth, Byron’s letters to, [222], [223]
Pisa: Shelley’s description of, [3];
Byron’s life at, [20]
Po, Stanzas to the, what they reveal, [298] et seq., [370]
Pope, Alexander, Homer, [51]
Prothero, Rowland E.:
Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, [70] n., [125], [256] n., [260] n., [383]
Quarterly Review, the, [50], [100]
Recollections of a Long Life. See [Broughton, Lord]
Roberts, Captain, describes the wreck of The Bolivar, [33]
Robertson, Rev. Frederick, Lady Byron’s spiritual adviser, [324]
Robinson, Crabb, [77]
Romilly, Sir Samuel, consulted by Lady Byron, [338]
Salona, Congress at, [152], [153]
Sanders, Mr. George, painter, his portrait of Byron, [9]
Sardanapalus, a tragedy, [101]
Sass, Lieutenant, death of, [141]
Schilitzy, a Greek, accompanies Byron to Greece, [47]
Scott, Captain, commands the Hercules, in which Byron travels to Greece, [47]
Scott, Dr., surgeon, and Byron, [54], [58]
Scott, Sir Walter:
Byron’s opinion of, [35], [51], [55], [79];
his denial of the authorship of the Waverley Novels, [53]
Segati, Marianna, Byron’s liaison with, [371]
Shakespeare, William, Byron’s opinion of, [101]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe:
describes Pisa, [3];
and Byron, [11] et seq.;
fracas at Pisa, [20], [21];
and Allegra, [22];
leaves Pisa for Lerici, [26];
and Leigh Hunt, [26] et seq.;
his death, [30];
Byron’s opinion of, [30], [35];
his legacy to Byron, [32]
Shelley, Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Mrs. Julian Marshall, [178]
Stanhope, Col. the Hon. Leicester:
arrives in Cephalonia to co-operate with Byron, [68];
on Byron’s character, [78], [174];
begs Byron to come to Missolonghi, [81];
on Byron’s conduct in Greece, [91], [107];
interviews and misunderstandings with Byron, [108] et seq.;
his conduct in Greece, [119], [153];
accompanies Byron’s body to England, [199], [202];
Greece in 1823 and 1824, and Sketch of Byron, [201];
character sketch of Byron, [205] et seq.
Stanhope, Earl, historian, opinion of Mrs. Leigh, [318]
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Mrs. Leigh’s letters, [357]
Stowe. See [Beecher Stowe]
Stravolemo, Dr., physician, and Dr. Bruno, [79]
Suliotes:
Byron takes 500 into his pay, [91];
false alarm, [123];
serious fracas, [140];
their dismissal, [142]
Swift, William, bootmaker at Southwell, his evidence of Byron’s lameness, [8]
Taaffe, Mr., fracas at Pisa, [20], [21]
Thomas, Dr., invited to attend Byron in his last illness, [168], [193] et seq.
Thorwaldsen, his marble bust of Byron, [10]
Thyrza poems, what they reveal, [221], [232], [235]
Tita, Giovanni Battista Falcieri, Byron’s faithful servant, [97], [166], [169] et seq.
Toole, Mr., receives Byron at Santa Eufemia, [60]
Trelawny, Edward John:
arrives at Pisa, [4];
describes Byron and his peculiarities, [5], [17], [18];
on Leigh Hunt and Byron, [28];
effect of Shelley’s death, [32];
lays up The Bolivar, [32];
travels with Byron to Greece, [47], [48];
and Byron’s seizure, [62];
mistaken views of Byron’s motives, [64], [65];
unhealthiness of Missolonghi, [87];
his opinion of Byron, [178] et seq.;
and Mavrocordato, [179];
on Byron’s deformity, [191], [192]
Tricoupi, Spiridion, pronounces funeral oration over Byron, [185]
Vaga, Dr. Lucca, Greek physician, attends Byron in his last illness, [169], [408]
Vathi, Byron at, [58]
Villiers, Hon. Mrs., and Mrs. Leigh, [357], [362], [367];
Lady Byron confides the secret to, [381], [394]
Vivian, Charles, his death, [30]
Volpiotti, Constantine, spy under Byron’s roof, [162]
Watson’s Philip II., [102]
Webster, Lady Frances Wedderburn, and Byron, [240], [241], [259]
Wentworth, Lord, Byron inherits his property, [10]
West, William Edward, American painter, his portrait of Byron, [9]
Wildman, Colonel Thomas, [44]
Wildman, Mrs., owner of Byron’s boot-trees and the bootmaker’s statement as to Byron’s deformity, [7], [8]
Williams, Edward, and Leigh Hunt, [29];
on Byron’s treatment of Mrs. Hunt, [29];
his death, [30]
Wilmot, Robert John, signs Lady Byron’s statement, [355], [357], [359]
Wilson, John, [60]
Wilson, General Sir Robert, known as ‘Jaffa Wilson,’ [110]
Wordsworth, William, [60];
Byron reviews his poems, [101] n.
York, Duke of, and Sir Walter Scott, [53]
Young, Charles, actor, Byron’s opinion of, [61]
Zante, Byron at, [83], [198]
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Footnotes:
[1] Medwin, in his book ‘The Angler in Wales,’ vol. ii., p. 211, says: ‘The right foot, as everyone knows, being twisted inwards, so as to amount to what is generally known as a club-foot.’
[2] Letter to Mr. Gisborne, January 12, 1822. Professor Dowden’s ‘Life of Shelley,’ vol. ii., p. 447.
[3] ‘Lord Byron.’
[4] ‘Letters and Journals of Lord Byron,’ edited by Rowland Prothero, vol. vi., appendix iii.
[5] ‘Life of Shelley,’ vol. ii., p. 494.
[6] Henry Dunn kept a British shop at Leghorn.
[7] For Byron’s opinion of Shelley’s poetry, see appendix to ‘The Two Foscari’: ‘I highly admire the poetry of “Queen Mab” and Shelley’s other publications.’
[8] ‘The Angler in Wales,’ by Thomas Medwin, vol. ii., pp. 144-146.
[9] Lady Noel left by her will to the trustees a portrait of Byron, with directions that it was not to be shown to his daughter Ada till she attained the age of twenty-one; but that if her mother were still living, it was not to be so delivered without Lady Byron’s consent.
[10] It was at this time that Byron endeavoured to suppress the fact that he had written ‘The Age of Bronze.’
[11] Dr. Bruno.
[12] Byron’s sobriquet for Walter Scott.
[13] ‘Letters and Journals of Lord Byron,’ edited by Rowland Prothero, vol. vi., p. 259.
[14] ‘Memoir of Rev. F. Hodgson,’ vol. ii., p. 150.
[15] ‘Diary,’ vol. iii., pp. 435, 436.
[16] Parry, p. 170.
[17] Byron wrote a review of Wordsworth’s ‘Poems’ in Monthly Literary Recreations for July, 1807, and a review of Gell’s ‘Geography of Ithaca’ in the Monthly Review for August, 1811.
[18] General Sir Robert Wilson (1777-1849), commonly known as ‘Jaffa Wilson,’ entered Parliament in 1818. Having held Napoleon up to horror and execration for his cruelty at Jaffa, Wilson subsequently became one of his strongest eulogists. Being by nature a demagogue, he posed as a champion in the cause of freedom and civil government; he accused England of injustice and tyranny towards other nations, and prophesied her speedy fall. He warmly espoused the cause of Queen Caroline, and was present at the riot in Hyde Park on the occasion of her funeral, when there was a collision between the Horse Guards and the mob. For his conduct on that occasion, despite a long record of gallant service in the field, Wilson was dismissed the Army in 1821, but was reinstated on the accession of William IV. He appears to have been both foolish and vain, and fond of creating effect. He was constantly brooding over services which he conceived to have been overlooked, and merits which he fancied were neglected. He attached himself to the ultra-radicals, and puffed himself into notoriety by swimming against the stream. A writer in the Quarterly Review (Vol. xix., July, 1818) says: ‘The obliquity of his (Wilson’s) perceptions make his talents worse than useless as a politician, and form, even in his own profession, a serious drawback to energy however great, and to bravery however distinguished.’
[19] High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.
[20] Acting as Secretary to High Commissioner.
[21] Vol. vi., p. 326.
[22] One of the turbulent capitani who was playing for his own hand. He was at one time a member of the Executive Body, and was afterwards proclaimed by the Legislative Assembly as an enemy of the State.
[23] A leader of Greek insurgents—Byron calls him Ulysses—who broke away from Government control to form an independent party in opposition to Mavrocordato, with whose views Byron sympathized. Trelawny and Colonel Stanhope believed in Odysseus, who after having acquired great influence in Eastern Greece was proclaimed by the Government, imprisoned, and murdered while in captivity.
[24] ‘Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,’ edited by Mrs. Julian Marshall.
[25] For further evidence on this point, see ‘Letters of Lord Byron,’ edited by Rowland Prothero, vol. i., pp. 9-11.
[26] It is difficult to reconcile this with Millingen’s statement.
[27] Edinburgh Review, April, 1871, pp. 294-298.
[28] He succeeded Sir Thomas Maitland as High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.
[29] This must be taken cum grano salis.
[30] They appear to have met accidentally in Trinity Walks a few days earlier. Edleston did not at first recognize Byron, who had grown so thin.
[31] Edleston, who some time previously had given Byron a ‘Cornelian’ as a parting gift on leaving Cambridge for the vacation.
[32] Edleston had died five months before Byron heard the sad news.
[33] ‘I think it proper to state to you that this stanza alludes to an event which has taken place since my arrival here, and not to the death of any male friend.’—Lord Byron to Mr. Dallas.
[34] That this Thyrza was no passing fancy is proved by Lord Lovelace’s statement in ‘Astarte’ (p. 138): ‘He had occasionally spoken of Thyrza to Lady Byron, at Seaham and afterwards in London, always with strong but contained emotion. He once showed his wife a beautiful tress of Thyrza’s hair, but never mentioned her real name.’
[35] Captain (afterwards Commodore) Walter Bathurst was mortally wounded at the Battle of Navarino, on October 20, 1827.—‘Battles of the British Navy,’ Joseph Allen, vol. ii., p. 518.
[36] The last line was in the first draft.
[37] Medwin (edition of 1824), p. 63.
[38] ‘A power of fascination rarely, if ever, possessed by any man of his age’ (‘Recollections of a Long Life,’ by Lord Broughton, vol. ii., p. 196).
[39] ‘Letters and Journals of Byron,’ vol. iii., p. 406, edited by Rowland E. Prothero.
[40] Moore had rented a cottage in Nottinghamshire, not very remote from Newstead Abbey.
[41] See ‘Letters and Journals of Lord Byron,’ edited by Rowland Prothero, vol. ii., pp. 267, 269, 278, 292.
[42] ‘Had I not written “The Bride” (in four nights), I must have gone mad by eating my own heart—bitter diet.’—‘Journals and Letters,’ vol. ii., p. 321.
‘Hail be you, Mary, mother and May,
Mild, and meek, and merciable!’
An Ancient Hymn to the Virgin.
[44] Mary was ‘the last of a time-honoured race.’ The line of the Chaworths ended with her.
[45] It will be remembered that Byron had announced ‘The Corsair’ as ‘the last production with which he should trespass on public patience for some years.’ With the loss of Mary’s love his inspiration was gone.
‘With hackbut bent, my secret stand,
Dark as the purposed deed, I chose,
And mark’d where, mingling in his band,
Trooped Scottish pikes and English bows.’
Sir Walter Scott: Cadyow Castle.
[47] Mary’s allusion to the seal is explained by an entry in Byron’s journal, November 14, 1813. The seal is treasured as a memento of Byron by the Musters family.
[48] No one, we presume, will question the identity of the person mentioned in ‘The Dream’:
‘Upon a tone,
A touch of hers, his blood would ebb and flow,
And his cheek change tempestuously—his heart
Unknowing of its cause of agony.’
[49] ‘Astarte,’ p. 134.
[50] Lady Caroline Lamb also asserted that Byron showed her some letters which contained some such expression as this: “Oh! B——, if we loved one another as we did in childhood—then it was innocent.” The reader may judge whether such a remark would be more natural from Augusta, or from Mary Chaworth.
[51] October 14, 1814.
[52] See the poem ‘Remember Him’: ‘Thy soul from long seclusion pure.’
‘Ophelia. O heavenly powers, restore him!’
Hamlet, Act III., Scene i.
‘The song, celestial from thy voice,
But sweet to me from none but thine.’
Poetry of Byron, vol. iv.: ‘To Thyrza.’
‘Siede la terra, dove nata fui,
Su la marina dove il Po discende.’
Inferno, Canto V., 97, 98.
[56] Although not near the source of the Po itself, Byron, at Ferrara, was not very far from the point where the Po di Primaro breaks away from the Po, and, becoming an independent river, flows into the dark blue Adriatic, about midway between Comachio and Ravenna.
[57] Shortly afterwards he translated ‘The Episode of Francesca,’ line for line, into English verse.
[58] ‘Beppo,’ stanza 83.
[59] ‘Astarte,’ p. 166.
[60] Lady Byron and Rev. F. Robertson drew up a memorandum of this conversation, April 8, 1851.
[61] ‘Astarte,’ p. 137.
[62] ‘Recollections of a Long Life,’ by Lord Broughton, vol. ii., p. 297.
[63] Ibid., vol. ii., pp. 219, 239.
[64] ‘Lady Byron said that she founded her determination [to part from her husband] on some communication from London.’—‘Recollections of a Long Life,’ vol. ii., p. 255.
[65] ‘There is reason to believe that Lord Chief Justice Cockburn privately saw letters [in 1869] of 1813 and 1814 which proved the fact of incest, and the overwhelming effect of the evidence therein contained.’—‘Astarte,’ p. 54.
[66] ‘Astarte,’ p. 77.
[67] Hanson.
[68] Leigh.
[69] ‘Recollections of a Long Life,’ vol. ii., p. 303.
[70] A fortnight before writing ‘Stanzas to the Po.’
[71] ‘Short name of three or four letters obliterated.’—‘Astarte,’ p. 180.
[72] Short name of three or four letters obliterated.
[73] Marianna (Anglice: Mary Anne).
[74] Lady Byron (see ‘Astarte,’ p. 166).
[75] His sister’s society.
[76] In case Byron altered his will.
[77] Vol. v., p. 1.
[78] Tinct. chinæ corticis; tinct. cinchonæ.