Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 May 1814
“Do you go to the Lady
Cahir’s this even? If you do—and whenever we are bound to the same
follies—let us embark in the same ‘Shippe of Fooles.’ I have been up till
five, and up at nine; and feel heavy with only winking for the last three or four
nights.
“I lost my party and place at supper trying to keep out of
the way of * * * *. I would have gone away altogether, but that would
have appeared a worse affectation than t’other. You are of course engaged to
dinner, or we may go quietly together to my box at Covent-garden, and afterwards to this
assemblage. Why did you go away so soon?
“Ever, &c.
“P.S. Ought not
R * * * fe’s supper to
have been a dinner? Jackson is here, and I
must fatigue myself into spirits.”
Emily Butler, countess of Glengall [née Jeffreyes] (d. 1836)
The daughter of James St John Jeffreyes of Blarney Castle; in 1793 she married Richard
Butler (1775-1819) eleventh baron Caher and first earl of Glengall. She was the original of
Lady Singleton in Lady Morgan's novel
O'Donnel.
John Jackson [Gentleman Jackson] (1769-1845)
Pugilist; champion of England from 1795 to 1804, when he was defeated by Jem Belcher.
After retirement he established a school that became headquarters of the Pugilistic
Club.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Irish poet and biographer, author of the
Irish Melodies (1807-34),
The Fudge Family in Paris (1818), and
Lalla
Rookh (1817); he was Byron's close friend and designated biographer.
George Augustus Parkyns, second baron Rancliffe (1785-1850)
He succeeded his father Thomas Parkyns MP in the title in 1800 and married in 1807
Elizabeth Maria Theresa Forbes (1787 c.-1852), daughter of Sir George Forbes, sixth Earl of
Granard.
