George Finlay

(1799-1875)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Finlay, George, 1799-1875 NRA: Finlay George (1799-1875) Historian of Greece DNB: Finlay, George (1799-1875), philhellene and historian LBT ID: GeFinla1875 VIAF ID: 41950600 LOC ID: n90675861	B/BAP: 1799-12-21 DIED: 1875-01-26
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After study at Glasgow he fought in Greece where he saw much of Byron, afterwards buying an estate in Attica. He was the author of History of Greece, 7 vols (1844-61).
REFERENCES TO George Finlay: Lord Byron to Charles Hancock, 10 March 1824 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 6 Leicester Stanhope to William Henry Humphreys, 20 May 1824 in The Last Days of Lord Byron (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825) Found 1: ¶ 20 Bowring, John, Sir, 1792-1872, “Lord Byron in Greece” in Westminster Review 2 (July 1824) 225-62 Found 1: ¶ 56 Pietro Gamba, A Narrative of Lord Byron’s Last Journey to Greece. Extracted from the Journal of Count Peter Gamba, who attended that Expedition. (London: John Murray, 1825) Chapter IV Found 1: ¶ 47 Chapter V Found 2: ¶ 34 ¶ 35 Parry, William, fl. 1825, The Last Days of Lord Byron (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 30 Humphreys, W. H. (William Henry), “Adventures of an English Officer in Greece. No. I.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 17 (August 1826) 172-181 Found 1: ¶ 10 Kennedy, James, 1793?-1827, Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Fourth Conversation Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 ¶ 7 Memoir of Byron Found 10: ¶ 47 ¶ 50 ¶ 51 ¶ 52 ¶ 53 ¶ 54 ¶ 55 ¶ 57 ¶ 60 ¶ 61 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1823 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 53 Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece (London: John Rodwell, 1831) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 1-11 Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter XVI Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter XVIII Found 1: ¶ 12