Mrs. Byron, writing to Hanson, July 24, 1804, says,
"I was informed by a Gentleman yesterday that he had been at Harrow and heard him speaking, and that he acquitted himself uncommonly well."
Byron's name occurs in three of the Harrow speech-bills — July 5, 1804; June 6, 1805; and July 4, 1805. The three bills are printed below:—
| Harrow School Public Speeches | 1. July 5, 1804. | |
| Erskine, Maj. | Cæsar | ex Sallustio |
| Sinclair | Cato | ex Sallustio |
| Long | C. Canuleius ad Pleb. | ex Livia |
| Molloy, Sr. | The Country Box | Lloyd |
| Lord Byron | Latinus | Ex Virgilio |
| Leeke | Drances | Ex Virgilio |
| Peel, Sr. | Turnus | Ex Virgilio |
| Chaplin | Henry V to his soldiers | Shakespear |
| Clayton | Micispa ad Jugurtham | ex Sullustia |
| Rowley | Germanicus moriens | ex Tacito |
| Grenside, Sr. | General Wolfe to his soldiers | Enfield |
| Morant, Sr. | Dido | Ex Virgilio |
| Mr.Calthorpe, Sr. | In Catilinam | Ex Cicerone |
| Lloyd, Sr. | The Ghost | Shakespear |
| Mr. Powys | Tiresias | Ex Horatio |
| Sir Thomas Acland | The Boil'd Pig | Wesley |
| Leveson Gower | Ad Antonium | Ex Cicerone |
| Drury, Max | Earl of Strafford | Hume |
2. June 6, 1805.
were no Speeches for May, 1805. Dr. Butler came to Harrow this year, after the Easter Holiday. — G.B.