John Welsford Cowell

(1795 c.-1862 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cowell, John Welsford LBT ID: JoCowel1862 VIAF ID: 1563624 LOC ID: n88138599	B/BAP: 1795
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After meeting Byron at Brighton in 1808 they corresponded while Cowell was at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; Cowell later visited Byron in Pisa. He was a Bank of England economist.
REFERENCES TO John Welsford Cowell: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 44 Life of Byron: 1822 Found 1: ¶ 26 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Lerici: 1822 Found 1: ¶ 6