LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Webster, Godfrey Vassal, Sir, 1789-1836 DNB: Webster, Sir Godfrey Vassall, fifth baronet (1789-1836) LBT ID: GoWebst1836 VIAF ID: 26576351 LOC ID: nb2003078697 | B/BAP: 1789 DIED: 1836-07-17 |
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The spendthrift son of the fourth baronet, whom he succeeded in 1800; after an affair
with Lady Caroline Lamb he married and was MP for Sussex (1812-20). | |
REFERENCES TO Sir Godfrey Vassall Webster, fifth baronet: Mrs. J. H. Peterson to Lady Caroline Lamb, [August 1812] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1:
¶ 1 Lady Holland to Eleanor Creevey, 21 May 1816 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c. [Concluded]” in Literary Gazette (11 February 1832) 88-89 Found 1:
¶ 12 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Byron and his Friends Found 1:
¶ 8 The Pisan Circle Found 1:
¶ 16 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter V. Found 1:
¶ 15 Chapter VII. Found 1:
¶ 5 Chapter IX. Found 1:
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