Byron took his M. A. degree at Cambridge July 4, 1808.
Sir William Drummond (1770-1828), Tory M.P. for St. Mawes (1795-96) and for Lostwithiel (1796-1801), held from 1801 to 1809 several diplomatic posts: ambassador to the Court of Naples 1801-3; to the Ottoman Porte 1803-6; to the Court of Naples for the second time, 1806-9. From 1809, at which date his political and diplomatic career closed, he devoted himself to literature. He had already published
Philosophical Sketches on the Principles of Society and Government
(1793);
A Review of the Governments of Sparta and Athens
(1795);