Edinburgh Review
(July, 1805) on Gell's
Topography of Troy,
he has a place in
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers
(lines 508, 509). He also appears as "sullen Aberdeen," in a suppressed stanza of
Childe Harold
, Canto II., which in the MS. follows stanza xiii., among those who
" — — pilfer all the Pilgrim loves to see,
All that yet consecrates the fading scene."
After leaving Harrow, and before entering St. John's College, Cambridge, he spent two years (1801-3) in Greece. On his return he founded the Athenian Society, and became President of the Society of Antiquaries from 1812 to 1846. It may be added that he was Foreign Secretary when the Porte acknowledged the independence of Greece by the Treaty of Adrianople (1829).