Byron's college acquaintance was possibly William Fleming Dick, educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, though he is said to have departed for service in the East India Company in 1805. Dick later married a cousin of William Makepeace Thackeray.

REFERENCES TO William Fleming Dick:

Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 November 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)