William Guise Whitcombe

(1804.-1832)

LBT ID: WiWhitc1832	B/BAP: 1804-08-11 DIED: 1832-10-06
SOURCES: C. W. J. Eliot, ed. Whitcombe, Campaign of the Falieri and Piraeus in the year 1827 (1992)
The son of Samuel Whitcombe and brother of the Philhellene Thomas Douglas Whitcombe; upon being freed after his failed attempt to assassinate Edward John Trelawny he published a fictionalised account of his experiences, Sketches of Modern Greece (1828).
REFERENCES TO William Guise Whitcombe: 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 3: ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 Humphreys, W. H. (William Henry), “Adventures of an English Officer in Greece. No. II.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 17 (September 1826) 201-08 Found 8: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 23 ¶ 29 Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece (London: John Rodwell, 1831) Chapter XVI Found 1: ¶ 11 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter XXIV. Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 6