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He actually spelled his name with a Y and did behave as a god as well: Arrogant in his private life, otherwise a top-notch diplomat/politician,gauleiter of all others of his time, hard working, meticulous for detail, very intelligent, proud of his accomplishments, never really cared to cover his tracks, leaving behind for everyone to examine, long lists of own operas and own libretti under even more names. Many of his associates, who new him well, died young!
The man who, for his own profit as another Chaliphe de Baghdad (an opera by him) laid the foundations of early modern Europe- and not only!
He ended up defeated by King Wurm, like any other lilliputian mortal!
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Source: La prisonnière, comédie en un acte et en prose, mêlée d'ariettes, représentée le 26 fructidor an 7, sur le théâtre Montansier. Paroles des cc. Jouy, Longchamp et S.-Just. Musique des cc. Boyeldieu et Cherubini ..
As for Champollion jr, he was born 1795, died 1871- and so did all his other "selfs".
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno!
Luigi Mosca (*1775) composer
Carlo Porta (* 1775) poet,.
Don Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese, Prince of Sulmona and of Rossano, Duke and Prince of Guastalla (*1775).
Louis Emmanuel Dupaty (*1775) French playwright,
Martial Aubertin (*1775), was a French stage actor and dramatist
Antoni Radziwiłł (*1775)
João Domingos Bomtempo (*1775) composer
Michel du Pierre Cocchini, engineer Missolonghi (*1775)
Louis Marie Madeleine Ripault, dit l’abbé Ripault (*1775) philologue et antiquaire
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, (*1775 ) adventurer
Louis_Pierre_Alphonse_de_Colbert(* 1776),
Giuseppe Checcherini (* 1777) librettista
William Martin Leake, (January 14, 1777) antiquarian and topographer.
Michel du Pierre Hennin, (* 1777) antiquaire, numismate et collectionneur.
Domenico Barbaia (*1777) best known as an opera Italian impresario.
List is indicative, not exhaustive!
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824),
Thomas Gordon Major-General (1788 – 20 April 1841) , British army officer and historian, remembered for his role in the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s and 1830s and his History of the war published in 1832.
Working Hypothesis : Did the first really die or was his death staged?
(to continue, readers contribution wellcome)
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There is something curious about Byron's death , April 1824, Missolonghi: Of all foreigns agents and associates of his, only Gamba and Millingen were at his bedside while the others , Gordon, Stanhope, Trelawney, Giovanni D' Anastasy , G.T Washington, Maxime Raybaud , captain Hamilton, Michel Pierre Cocchini (who also staged his death) etc all missing.
Gamba , Trelawney and Millingen having each written a book on Byron, are therefore his only witnesses/sources .Are they trustworthy?
They are not:
Trelawney (G.T. Washington) already famous for his lightheadedness, was not there. Practically unknown Gamba had his Book published by John Murray (as above)!
Millingen , close associate of the "other Pierre Michel" (Hennin) serving next in Istambul, married there to a Cocchini (or daughter of one), collector of porcelain antics etc has long been a suspect for Byron's death anyway.
This lack of support to dying Byron , this indifference, is an indication that control of the 1824 political situation was absolute at the time, that Byron survived and that his "death" was a much needed fix for the civil war that begun in Greece late 1823 between franco/russiophils and anglophils, threatening the feeding field of bankers.
Stage management and impersonating (acting) was their prime occupation (as spies/diplomats) anyway!@
Next: to trace time and location of Byron's other philelhene associates.
(25 April 1824) Six days after Byron’s death an English merchant vessel, the Florida, arrived at Zante in the Ionian Islands. She had on board Edward Blaquiere with 30,000 English gold sovereigns and 50,000 Spanish silver dollars. …A few weeks later another vessel, the Little Sally, arrived with another 40,000 gold sovereigns, the second instalment of the loan…..*9 ( (That Greece will still be free. books.openedition.org/obp/722?lang=en#ftn9)
27 April 1824 Théâtre de l'Odéon Adrien Boieldieu (1775– (together with Daniel Auber) Les trois genres scène lyrique 1 act Eugène Scribe, Emanuel Mercier-Dupaty and Michel Pichat
May 11th, 1824,Missolonghi, n. st. George Jarvis.To Major Parry, &c. &c.
Sir,
It is the fourth of mine which I now have the pleasure to address to you. Since so long a period as your separation, not a single line has reached us, nor have we had any news whatsoever from that quarter. The present I confide to the hands of our friend, the harbour-master of this town, Captain Sidero,…….
The Department of the Brigade has been left to me.
The Department of the Fortifications has been left to me, in company with the Engineer Cochini, (In Paris as Boildieu above) and the Commissary of War.
etc etc ;
The boat goes: I shall write on the first occasion, begging only my most respectful compliments to the Count, &c. Mr. Winter, I hope, forwarded the letters to Cephalonia, to send on here Mr. Fenton’s trunk*. Remaining, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
George Jarvis.
25th May 1824 Colonel Stanhope kindly took charge of her; and on the 25th of May, the Florida, having on board the remains of Lord Byron, set sail for England from the port of Zante.
*9A Scottish volunteer, Fenton, who had come from Spain expressly to join Byron’s Brigade was shot dead by a fellow Philhellene
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Asking to send Mr. Fenton’s trunk from islands Cephahalonia or Zante , west of Missolonghi and under britisjh protection then, to "greek-under siege" Missolonghi , has no other logical explanation than the "fix"!
next post on 7/19 April 2021 to commemorate Msrs Boieldieu*1775 and Blaquiere*1779 who had , as it turns out, so much in common!
Celebrating Greek Independence today, I wish to publicly express my gratitude and sincere thanks to Presidents J.Biden and Em.Macron for their kind wishes to my homeland.
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...theatrical perfomance! (also as “Αλλ’ ουδέν έρπει ψεύδος εις γήρας χρόνου.” for greek readers.)
M1 Whereas all sources , Byron included (note1), claim that Thomas Gordon*1788 was absent at the time of Byron’s death , Trelawney*1792 disagrees (see his 24 April 1824 Missolonghi lettter to Stanhope in Zante): Do, for God’s sake, however see Gordon and Blaquiere , and now that Lord Byron is no more, someone must be, for the time, added to the commission , certainly you or ---------
Note1 see PS to Byron’s letter to Mavrocordatos, Cephallonia 1 October 1823: Gordon will not come in person but will contribute from his means to increase the funds of the Committee.
As the "story" is rather long, it will be presented in about ten posts
M2 To verify the existence of a "Lord Byron", neither Thomas Gordon nor anybody else, ever cared to “create” any letter exchange between the two: No such letters are on www.
M3 Trelawney (*1792) hesitates to name the man of previous post ( “--------“Note2) who would replace , besides Stanhope, Byron’s place in the Commission controlling the rebellion’s cash flow.
Note 2 He had multiple aliases , all born 1775.
M3: Shortly after Fenton/Byron’s death 19 April 1824 , “top man” Boyeldieu(*1775) was allegedly in Paris, 27 April 1824, codirecting (together with Daniel Auber-note 3) - Les trois genres scène lyrique 1 act, libr. Eugène Scribe, Emanuel Mercier-Dupaty and Michel Pichat)….
note 3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_François-Adrien_Boieldieu
However
M 4: ….his codirector Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (* 1782), in his own operas list, claims that Les trois genres were only written in collaboration with François-Adrien Boieldieu (note 4) thus confirming Jarvis’s letter as above re Michel Pierre Cochini’s (*1775)etc presence in Missolonghi at the time of Byron/Fenton’s death.
note 4 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_Daniel_Auber
M5 : Millingen who performed “a” necropcy on Byron/Fenton’s head , thus destroying it, thus Jarvis’s beans-spilling letter May 11th, 1824 re Fenton’s “trunk” ie torso!
Μ6 Millingen with his documented (note 5) close relations and joint travels at critical historical events to the ”other Michel Pierre” (Hennin, JGE,*1775) , indicating an apprentice to master relationship!
Note 5:see online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?43550-%93Abbe-Raynal%94-another-alias-of-%93Rousseau-Saint-Germain-quot, post10
Count Aleksander Stanisław Potocki (1778–1845) was a Polish noble, landowner and politician. He was the senator-castellan of the Polish Kingdom in 1824 and chamberlain of Napoleon I.
After checking, Aleksander has been added to my list of 1775ers alongside Boyeldieu who, growing older, either became wiser or run out of space for more *1775 aliases- such as for example distinguihed member Antoni Radziwiłł *1775- or both!.
After previous short intermezzo....
M7 : On 12 July 1824 the Londoners saw the funeral procession begin its four day journey to Hucknall (Nottinghamshire). Mary Shelley saw the procession when it passed her house and Byron's former lover Lady Caroline Lamb broke down once more when she saw it too. Byron's fame ascertained that not only his aquaintances, but also those who had never known him personally were impressed. (Coverup:, they did not follow “Byron”to his grave, details next, .
M8 : Acc to Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), an Irish writer, poet and lyricist, celebrated for his Irish Melodies: FOLLOWING Byron's death, Moore learned that Murray*1775 had deemed the material unfit for publication he spoke of settling the matter with a duel.(55). in 1824, in the greatest literary crime in history, Moore together with Lady Byron, Augusta Leigh, Hobhouse,and the family solicitors, TORE UP all extant copies of the Byron’s manuscript and burned them in Murray's (*1775) fireplace. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moore)
Wikipedia is a usefull tool that everybody uses today but, regrettably, their Trelawney biography -with 195 footnotes, 10 Sources, 6 T’s biographies and 5 books , is unfortunately just 1 jar of countless composted repetitions of his- and his aliases- few but major falsities.
Apparently, not-one of his distinguished biographers, bothered to check him thru , thus the fact that he became twice a prime minister of England (to follow) and his false narrative with regard to Fenton’s death were never checked.
As such:
Whereas Stanhope 21 February 1824 left Mesolongi bound for Athens, taking with him the young English philhellene William Humphreys, who had arrived on the same boat as Parry. In Athens Stanhope and Humphreys both fell under the spell of Odysseus Androutsos, as Trelawny had done before them. Stanhope wrote: "I have been constatly with Odysseus, he is a doing man; he governs with a strong arm, and is the only man in Greece that can preserve order."
and while Byron writes a month befor his death writes to TO COLONEL STANHOPE.“Missolonghi, 19th March, 1824”.
MY DEAR STANHOPE,Prince Mavrocordato and myself will go to Salona to meet Ulysses,………. “P.S. Your two letters (to me) are sent to Mr. Barff, as you desire. Pray remember me particularly to Trelawney, whom I shall be very much pleased to see again
3 to 6 April 1824 Byron's friend Edward John Trelawny had aligned himself with Androutsos, who ruled Athens, and was now pressing for Byron to break with Mavrokordatos in favour of backing his rival Androutsos.[80] Androutsos, having won over Trelawny to his cause, was now anxious to persuade Byron to put his wealth behind his claim to be the leader of Greece.[83]
post Byron/Fenton’s death :
24 April 1824 Missolonghi .Trelawney to Stanhope
Dear St. , Letter from Zante informs us of the arrival of mr Blaquiere , in the ship Florida, having made an extraordinary swift crossing…bringing 400000pounds sterling Blaquieure is going straight to the Morea…
and while on May 1st 1824 Stanhope IS at Salona with Odysseas (letter of Blaquiere to John Bowring):Zante Saturday may 1st 1824: From E.Blaquiere to John Bowring, As Salona is three days journey from Missollonghi , I do not expect to hear from Stanhope for three or four days
and with Fenton already dead on May 11 1824 acc to Jarvis Missolonghi, ,May 11th, 1824, n. st. George Jarvis.To Major Parry, &c. &c.
and
29 May 1824 The Florida turned round at Zante and conveyed the body of Lord Byron and the members of his party back to England. A few weeks later another vessel, the Little Sally, arrived with another 40,000 gold sovereigns, the second instalment of the loan.on The Florida Stanhope writes to John Bowring that he received a 34 page letter from Trelawney
acc however to Trelawney’s Wikipedia biography :
In May 1824 Trelawny brought a load of guns to the fortified cave in which Odysseas was based. He arrived with a British military officer, Whitcomb, and a military engineer, Fenton.[105] Trelawny recorded that Odysseas commanded a force of 5,000 men, who killed over 20,000 people during their campaign.[106] Odysseas and his men retired to Parnassus after they learned the Greek government would not give them more funds.
Trelawny was bedridden for five weeks after he was shot.
5 june 1825 death of Odysseas Androutsos he was executed in Athens shortly before the attempt on Trelawny's life.[116] Trelawny regained full use of his arm, but he walked with a slight hunch after recovering from his injury.[117] Acc to d’Arcy Bacon’s account of rescue of J,E.Trelawny from the chieftain Odysseas Androutsos
Zante, 6th August, 1825.On the 29th ultimo (the day the first division of Greek vessels passed 'the island), a disturbance took place in the town, "and an immense mob which had collected, began by beating a man, who is related to a boatman occasionally traiding to Patras. They then proceeded to the residence of Signor Cochini,
Trelawney/Sgr..Cochini /G.T.Washington etc (all *1792)
As Trelawney's diplomatic "truths" and actions were for Union Jack's benefit, they'll not be counted as M(ishaps) and moreover the nr 20 per title is already tending towards another Catch- 22 .
Therefore,
M9: 16 juillet 1824, (obviously returning from London) Anne-Charles Lebrun duc de Plaisance (*1775), est admis à siéger à la Chambre des pairs par droit.
M10 : 20 July 1824 Adrien Boieldieu (*1775) Salle Feydeau Béniowski, ou Les exilés du Kamchattka (2nd version), opéra comique 3 acts, libr Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval (*6 April 1767), after August von Kotzebue(*May 176 † 23. März 1819)
M11: 26 Νοεμβρίου 1824 The second part of the british loan (50000lbs sterling) raised the spirits of Souliotes and Roumeliotes fighters who gathered from all parts of NorthWestern mainland to fight against the government troops . Tripolitsa changed masters once more while the rebels took defense positions in mountain villages of mount Mainalon , Arcadia, Peloponesos. Not a single sovereign from the English loan was spent to build up defences against the turks. Colettti and Countouriotes achieved their goal to…conquer Morea.
M12 : tra il 13 e il 30 novembre 1824. Il compositore Luigi Mosca (*1775) muore a Napoli, (not really!)
M13 : Dec 15, 1824 Michel P. Kokkinis*1775, in letter to publishers of Ellinika Chronika Missolonghi , thanks the people for reception of his “wife” and children (two boys, one girl).
Aliernative title: Trelawney, KG, GCMG, PC, FRS.
M12, Flashback to 1819. concerning :
Thomas Moore*1779, (propably AKA Edward Blaquiere *1779)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC, FRS (*18 August 1792
Sir John Bowring KCB FRS FRGS (*17 October 1792),
Edward John Trelawny (*13 November 1792),
To escape debtor's prison,he (Moore*1779)) left London ,in September 1819 travelling with Lord John Russell (*1792) , future Whig PRIME MINISTER AND EDITOR of Moore's journals and letters (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moore),
while, at the same time Trelawney: .
…. feeling humbled , left England 1819 for Switzerland, presenting himself then, along with visible credentials,.as “Captain Edward Trelawney, Royal Navy, Retired” (translation from german Wikipedia on Trelawney)
(more evidence to follow)
Exhausting the winning *92 team after excluding a) Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868, Passy) who is propably the same as Jéan dÁnastasy, Armand Pierre Causin de Perceval (*1795) , Champollion Fizeac (+September 1867)and François-Louis Crosnier (*1792) there is just one more AKA candidate remaining :
Percy Bysshe Shelley (*1792) whose early death , 8 July 1822 must,for obvious reasons, be questioned in another brief intermezzo, hopefully the last,
Mr Shelley has to wait. Another *1792 candidate has taken priority, a Trelawney- like french philosophe and, moreover, with influence on our main hero EAPoe!
His lengthy biography, long in his thoughts, ideas and principles and short in detail (other data, dates , presences etc, much Like Metternich's own bio) :
Victor Cousin (28 November 1792 – 14 January 1867) was a French philosopher. He was the founder of "eclecticism", a briefly influential school ...
Biography · Early influence on... · Philosophy · Doctrine of the reason
Let's see if he can illuminate us in next!
Victor Cousin (28 November 1792 – 14 January 1867) could not unfortunately help us solve his mystery , immersed in his philosophy as he was. Let’s see if his almost exact (*1792) contemporaries can do it for him via an abbreviated 1724- 26 timeline
April 1824 Byron/Fenton’s death
In May 1824 Trelawny*1792, with a British military officer, Whitcomb, and a military engineer, Fenton brought a load of guns to the fortified cave in which Odysseas was based. He arrived.[105] Trelawny recorded that Odysseas commanded a force of 5,000 men, who killed over 20,000 people during their campaign.[106] Odysseas and his men retired to Parnassus after they learned the Greek government would not give them more funds.
5 june 1825 Odysseaus Androutsos …was executed in Athens shortly before the (1824) attempt on Trelawny's life. Trelawny regained full use of his arm, but he walked with a slight hunch after recovering from his injury.[117] (Acc to d’Arcy Bacon’s*1778 (Jokn Murray*1778) account of rescue of J,E.Trelawny from the chieftain Odysseas Androutsos )
Trelawny was bedridden for five weeks after he was shot.
Zante, 6th August, 1825.On the 29£h ultimmo^ -(the day the first division of Greek vessels passed 'the island), a disturbance took j^lace in the town, "and an immense mob which had collected, began by beating a man, who is related to a boatman oc<5asSonally traiding to Patras. They then proceeded t0 the re&idence of Signor Cochini, who has resided here for two years^ and has occasionally contracted 'With the Turkish commander to furnish them with isupplies^ from Egypt, he being a protegee of the Viceroy. The windows were broken, the house forced open, and Signor Cochini only insured personal safety by escaping at the roof: all this happened, in open day, and although tlie house is situated opposite the Police Office, no officer or constables were to be found. After this, the mob proceeded to the residence of a Greek, named Croni, who is an agent to some mercantile houses at Alexandria, and in the course of business had likewise sold wheat to the Turks, His property was demolished before the police could interfere : and lastly, a person named Comiotti, (a violent Greek partisan, attached to one of the factions then in disrepute, who was formerly a Vice Consul at Prevesa, received a severe beating.
20 October 1825 From Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Trelawny (*1792) 2 writes to Roberts(*Feb 1789)about having been shot and almost killed.[33
D'Arcy Bacon*1778 was one of the most remarkable Englishmen who went to Greece to help in the fight for independence against the Turks. In 1825 he helped the wounded E.J. Trelawny to escape from a cave in the mountains and put him on his way back to England. DÁrcy +2 Dec 1842 GRAVE LOCATION London: St. Mary's Church, Lambeth churchyard (grave disappeared? by unknown commentator )
John Murray *1778 was a Scottish publisher and member of the John Murray publishing house. (published conte Pietro Gamba’s Narrative of Byron)
With nr of "mishaps" going to meet Poe's Ianthe (Zante) in heaven , part 2 to follow
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Corfù, 17th April 1826 , Guilford -North to TALBOT William Henry Fox*1800
My dear Sir
Your Servant brought me your Letter Yesterday Morning, and I was happy to save the gallant Hotspur<1> from the Claws of the Police, which would not allow Him to remain here without some one to answer for Him…..
Adieu, my Dear sir, Believe Me, ever Yrs most faithfully
Guilford
PS Many Compts to Mr and Mrs Gordon.<5> Maj Gen Thomas Gordon (aka Lord Byron) *1788-, British army officer and historian, author of the History of the Greek revolution (London: T Cadell, 1832). His wife was Armenian, Barbara Kana (later Baroness de Sedaiges). He was not given a military title here as he was between military appointments at the time and was working on behalf of the London Committee to distribute funds raised in London in Greece. In 1827, he joined the Greek Army with rank of Brigadier. http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/letters/t...eferringPage=0
Trelawny/Sgr..Cochini /G.T.Washington etc (all *1792)
Trelawney moved to Zante in May 1826 and stayed there for a year.[118] He lived next to the house of Thomas Gordon*1788 .[119] While they were living in Zante, Teritza gave birth to their first child, Zella.[120]
5 avril 1827,Cadet Guillelmo Townsend Washington is on record visiting an amateur Aegyptologist associate and mentor*1775 , on his way to Paris.
Who is Who :
William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE FRAS (/ˈtɔːlbət/; 11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
Julius Michael Millingen (1800–1878) was an English physician and writer. He was one of the doctors treating Lord Byron at his death
Sprint forward to meet Louis Crosnier*1792 and admire how philosophy assists couples to a harmonius coexistance:
23 February 1852 – 19 December 1852 Earl Russell*1792 in office as Leader of the Opposition
Du 29 février 1852 au 29 mai 1857 Louis Crosnier*1792, Mandat,Corps législatif. département Loir-et-Cher
December 1852 – 21 February 1853 Earl Russell *1792, In office as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
12 June 1854 – 8 February 1855 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, * 1792, In office Lord President of the Council
23 February 1855 – 21 July 1855 In office John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, * 1792 Secretary of State for the Colonies
Du 21 juin 1857 au 7 mai 1863 Louis Crosnier* 1792 Mandat législatif Département Loir-et-Cher
18 June 1859 – 3 November 1865 Earl Russell,* 1792 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
not to forget club*92 member John Bowring
on 13 April 1854 he arrived in Hong Kong
His work in Hong Kong ended in May 1859.
"Epitaph" for dearly departed *92ers
+8 July 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley or perhaps just Edward Ellerker Williams
+14 January 1867 in Cannes Victor Cousin
+1 septembre 1867 à Lisle , Loir-et-CheFrançois, Louis Crosnier
+ 23 November 1872 Sir John Bowring KCB FRS FRGS
+28 May 1878 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell,
+ August 1881 in Rome, Trelawny was seen in London at the funeral of George Leech on 29 October 1864 , was able to visit Augusta Draper in 1874 and Jane Williams in 1872. In August 1881 he suffered a fall while out on a walk. He was bedridden and died two weeks later.[192] His ashes were buried in Rome in a plot of ground adjacent to Percy Bysshe Shelley's grave. He had purchased this plot in 1822 at the time he had arranged for Shelley's ashes to be reburied in a more suitable site within the Protestant Cemetery.[181] At his request his grave marker bears a quote from Shelley's poem "Epitaph".[193]
Most propably only Earl Russel's is valid.
So , infact, what Byron Municipality of Athens and Misolongi town council are celebrating, this 200th year from 1821, is Fenton’s murder!
In next, the “mishaps” narrative will first return to a couple of *75ers (M13 &M14) to then on details of Fenton’s post mortem and burial M15-M20.
Not because any further proof is at all required but to give credit due and compliments to unknown author of www.praxxis.co.uk › credebyron › deathof for his fine sense of humor and originality of writings.
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M13: Louis Marie Madeleine Ripault, dit l’abbé Ripault (né à Orléans le 27 octobre 1775, et mort le 12 juillet 1823 à La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin) est un philologue et un antiquaire (sens ancien) français.
M14: THOMAS COCHRANE, 10th Earl of Dundonald, (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860)
Note : His alleged arrival to UK from South America does not tally with his arrival to Greece at same time/year. If any, then ANOTHER captain Cochrane was certainly, in South America 1824-25.
M15: Acc to MILLINGEN’S POST-MORTEM REPORT : The only blemish of his body, which might otherwise have vied with that of Apollo himself, was the congenital malformation of his LEFT* foot and leg. The foot was deformed and turned inwards; and the leg was smaller and sho rter than the sound one.
However Byron’s mother stated that it was her son’s RIGHT foot which was deformed!
M16 (July 1824) Byron’s /Fenton’s burial (source: www.praxxis.co.uk › credebyron › deathof) :
Because of Byron’s former scandals (….etc ) it was decided that Byron’s coffin should go into the Byron family vault at the little church of Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire a few miles from Byron’s beloved ancestral home, Newstead Abbey , but by the time of the funeral, Byron’s aristocratic peers had regained their sang froid and there was the embarrassing problem of how to pay ones last respects to the poet and hero of Greek Liberation without appearing to condone his still scandalous reputation. The solution was to send empty carriages, emblazened with their family crest to join the cortege, whilst not actually attending in person.
M17 In 1938 the Reverend Canon T.G. Barker, bothered by rumours circulating that the poet’s body did not actually lie at Hucknall, and interested to investigate possible archaeological remains under the chancel, gained permission from the Home Office to open the Byron vault and examine its contents.To avoid too much public interest, the opening was kept secret. It was witnessed by a historian, a surveyor, a doctor, church officers and a deputation of local worthies - some forty curious people in total. The vicar’s account describes in atmospheric detail this somewhat strange ceremony."Reverendly, very reverendly, I raised the lid, and before my eyes lay the embalmed body of Byron in AS PERFECT a condition AS WHEN it had been placed in the coffin one hundred and fourteen years ago. His features and hair easily recognisable from the portraits with which I was so familiar...The feet and ankles were uncovered, and I was able to establish that his lameness had been that of the right foot".
M18 Less reverend and more prurient was Mr. Houldworth the churchwarden, who noted that the poet’s "sexual organ showed quite abnormal development" and that the malformed foot that had caused the living Byron so much angst, was in fact missing. Inexplicably it was "detached from his leg and lay at the bottom of the coffin".
M19 The vicar and his party were, it transpired, not the first to have disturbed Byron’s grave. Examination revealed that the lead shell of Byron’s coffin had been damaged by a previous, unrecorded opening, some time before the vault was resealed at his daughter Ada’s entombment in 1852.
M20 Someone, evidently, couldn’t resist a final peep. And even now, two centuries after Byron’s birth, historians, biographers, and all those of us who still feel his fascination continue to sift through his remains - the letters, poems, lore and life-history – searching for some understanding of the enigma that was Byron. Genius or madman? Victim or tyrant? - the jury still out on Byron, and maybe it always will be. Perhaps George Gordon Byron never will rest in peace. But then again, peace and quiet never really were his style...
.....to follow. A first brief check shows it's not just a rare coincidence:
Francis I (Francis Stephen; French: François Étienne; German: Franz Stefan; 8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765)[1] was the Duke of Lorraine and Bar (1729–1737), and later Grand Duke of Tuscany (1737–1765), who married Maria Theresa of Austria and became Holy Roman Emperor (1745–1765) and Archduke of Austria (1740–1765). His wife effectively ruled Austria and the Holy Roman Empire. They were the founders of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty. The oldest surviving son of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Francis left the duchy for the deposed Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński in exchange for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as one of the terms ending the War of the Polish Succession in 1738. The duchy and the ducal title to Lorraine and Bar passed to King Louis XV of France upon Leszczynski's death in 1766, though Francis and his successors retained the right to style themselves as dukes of Lorraine and Bar.
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, KB (8 December 1708 – 2 November 1759) was a Welsh diplomat, writer and satirist. He was a Member of Parliament from 1734 until his death
...of imperial size !
12 March 1726 Scipione Handel (23 February 1685) ,King’s Theatre, London ,libr Rolli.
au printemps 1726 Naples Pietro AULETTA (1698 -1771)LA CARLOTTA opera buffa en trois actes – livret de Bernardo Saddumene
5 May 1726 Handel (* 23 February 1685), Alessandro O Mauro, King’s Theatre, London
2 September 1726 Calandro is an opera buffa in three acts composed by Giovanni Alberto Ristori*1692 to a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino. The libretto was based on the comedy Il Calandro by Bernardo Dovizi (Cardinal Bibbiena). In turn, Dovizi's play borrowed elements of the plot from Plautus's Menaechmi and the character Calandro from Boccaccio's Decameron It was first staged on 2 September 1726 in Dresden.
2 September 1726 in the court theatre at the Schloss Pillnitz (Pillnitz Castle) near Dresden at the request of Maria Josepha of Austria to celebrate the return of her husband, Augustus III
(17 October 1696 – 5 October 1763) married to Maria Josepha 1719 source : zims-en.kiwix.campusafrica.gos.orange.com/wikipedia_en_all_nopic/A/Augustus_III_of_Poland) , King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire from 1733 until 1763 where he was known as Frederick Augustus II
Comment: So, at the time, and in view of wikipedia's mistake on original text, Maria Josepha, already married was either divorced to mary emperor Charles VI as above or it's all a matter of Handel's /Voltaire's etc traditional intrusion, as Charles VI, in royal affairs. Further investigation needed!!!
2 Sep 1726 Marriage: Henry [Boyle], 1st Earl of Shannon, PC (*c. 1686 + 27 Dec 1764 bur. in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin) married (2nd) TO 3rd dau. of Charles [Boyle], 3rd Earl of Cork, by his wife Juliana Noel, dau. and hrss. of Hon Henry Noel, of North Luffenham, Rutland, 2nd son by his third wife of Baptist [Noel], 3rd Viscount Campden (web.archive.org/web/20110215070212/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index415.htm#SHANNON_1756_9)
*7 September 1726 (con dec 1725)born François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer .
September 11 – French bishop André-Hercule de Fleury (*1653), later Prime Minister for King Louis XV of France, is made a Roman Catholic Cardinal by Pope Benedict XIII.
September 23 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy from 1711 until his death, issues an order limiting the number of Jews who can be legally recognized as legitimate householders.[30]
Le 1er octobre 1726, Claude Dupin (*8 mai 1686 + 1769), sur une nouvelle intervention de Samuel Bernard et grâce à un prêt de celui-ci, il obtient l'une des quarante places extrêmement lucratives de fermier général.
17 October 1726. Pyrame et Thisbé (Pyramus and Thisbe) is an opera by the French composers François Francœur (8 September 1698 ) and François Rebel, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, is based on the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The role of Thisbé was created by Marie Pélissier.[1]
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AS neither
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, KB (8 December 1708 – 2 November 1759, shortly before Quiberon Bay's naval engagement. He was propably exposed to France then , had to disappear)…
nor:
Francis I (Francis Stephen, * 8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765)[1] was the Duke of Lorraine and Bar (1729–1737), and later Grand Duke of Tuscany (1737–1765), who married Maria Theresa of Austria and became Holy Roman Emperor (1745–1765)…
or:
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, PC, FRS (15 November 1708) , Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him Pitt of Chatham, or William Pitt the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, William Pitt the Younger, who also was a prime minister,
one can at least assume that :
Francis Stephen (*8 December 1708) would have been present, along with his future wife Maria Tereza , to his future mother-in-law’s reception of her aged husband , Prince Frederick Augustus,( 23 December 1750 – 5 May 1827) to propably his last trip home from Warsaw…,
…..as for Boyle’s(*1786) 2nd sept 1826 marriage....
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LE COMTE DE SAINT GERMAIN!
1 January 1726, * in Paris Jean-Denis Cochin (+ 3 June 1783, in Paris)
Jan. 3, 1726 Francis Godolphin (*September 1678) appointed Lord Justice of Great Britain . His first public appointment was that of joint registrar of the court of chancery on 29 June 1698, which he held to 20 January 1727
Married 8 January 1726 Karl Friedrich Necker (*13 January 1686 - Kuestrin, Brandenburg +23 June 1762 - Geneve, Switzerland, aged 76 years old) , Geneve, Switzerland, to Jeanne Marie Gautier 1692-1755 with
Con 9 Jan 1726 Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (9 October 1727 – 19[1] February 1794) was a French clergyman, bishop, cardinal, politician and finance minister of Louis XVI.
conc late Jan 1726 Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov ( 1 November 1727 – 14 November 1797) was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education. Russia's first theatre, university, and Academy of Arts were instituted with his active participation.
January 26 – The First Treaty of Vienna is signed between Austria, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain, creating the Austro-Spanish Alliance in advance of a
war against Great Britain
27 January 1726) Upon his father's death in 1726, Lord Stanhope*1694 assumed his seat in the House of Lords and became the 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
le 28 janvier 1726,Charles-Frédéric (Karl Friedrich) Necker, avocat à Custrin, en Brandebourg, devenu citoyen de la république de Genève et de sa femme née Jeanne Gautier, fille du premier syndic Gautier.
conc Feb 1726 Louis-Marie-Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt, marquis later duc du Châtelet (20 November 1727, Semur-en-Auxois - 13 December 1793, Paris), was an aristocratic French Army general and diplomat of the Ancien Régime., his mother was Voltaire ’s Emilie Du Chatelet!!
In early 1726, the aristocratic chevalier de Rohan-Chabot taunted Voltaire about his change of name, and Voltaire retorted that his name would win the esteem of the world, while de Rohan would sullyhis own.[41] The furious de Rohan arranged for his thugs to beat up Voltaire a few days later.[42]
2 feb 1726 Siroe re di Persia Vinci, Leonardo (Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) Venice Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo
(in quella dell’11 febbraio 1726),Francesco Caramelli, sacerdote, a Giovanni di Niccolò Baldovinetti (1695*)sulla cappella del Corpus Domini nella Compagnia della pieve di Marti. 62 lettere. Contiene anche lettera del segretario del Granduca Dani del 1584 a Baccio Valori e notizie sulle liti per i beni di Fonte a Pino e Pratiglione
On 3 February 1726, William Capel *1697 was married to Lady Elizabeth Russell, a daughter of the 2nd Duke of Bedford and the former Elizabeth Howland (daughter and heiress of John Howland of Streatham). Together, they had one surviving son:[3] William Anne Capell, 4th Earl of Essex (1732–1799), who married Frances Hanbury Williams, daughter of Charles Hanbury Williams. After her death, he married Harriet Bladen, a daughter of Col. Thomas Bladen.[3]
16 February 1726 Vivaldi (*March 1678) La fede tradita e vendicata Francesco Silvani 16 February 1726 Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo
February 22 (February 11, 1726 O.S.) – Spain besieges the British-held territory of Gibraltar, in order to recapture it. [33] Britain's Royal Navy begins a
blockade of Spanish ports and the unsuccessful siege ends with the signing of a truce on June 24.
26 February 1726 death of Maximilian II (*11 July 1662 ) Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel,[1] was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the last governor of the Spanish Netherlands and duke of Luxembourg, father of Charles Albert Charles VII (7 April 1697 – 20 January 1745) was the Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 until his death in 1745.
26 February 1726 Paris marriage of Jean Jacques AMELOT de CHAILLOU, Marquis de Combronde 1689-1749 to Marie Anne de VOUGNY (* 1716, +24 March 1783) - Paris, 75, Paris, Île-de-France, FRANCE,
Feb. 29, Rameau*1683 produced at the Theatre de la Foire a 1-act piece called L Enrolement d Arlequin, followed in the autumn by Le faux Prodigue, 2 acts, both written by Piron.
Carnival 1726 4th and 5th March Prague, Sporck Theater , Vivaldi La tirannia castigata Francesco Silvani Carnival 1726
On 4 March 1726, Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder, 2nd Lord Arniston (1685–1753) blamed the riots on the mismanagement of the Government and the military authorities. Later he put forward a proposal to allocate part of the malt tax to improvements in Scotland.
A7 April 1726 (conc June 1725) born Charles Burney FRS (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney, of the explorer James Burney, and of Charles Burney, a classicist and book donor to the British Museum.
Au printemps 1726 Naples Pietro AULETTA (1698 -1771)LA CARLOTTA opera buffa en trois actes – livret de Bernardo Saddumene
April 15 – Isaac Newton tells William Stukeley*1687 the story of how he developed his theory of gravity.
17 April 1726 Seeking redress, Voltaire challenged de Rohan to a duel, but the powerful de Rohan family arranged for Voltaire to be arrested and imprisoned without trial in the Bastille on 17 April 1726.[43][44] Fearing indefinite imprisonment, Voltaire asked to be exiled to England as an alternative punishment, which the French authorities accepted.[45]
conc april; 1726 Jean-André Deluc or de Luc[1] (8 February 1727 – 7 November 1817) was a Swiss geologist, natural philosopher and meteorologist. He also devised measuring instruments
29 April 1726 On the day Voltaire was released from prison, Grebillon’s Pyrhhus was staged at the comedie Francaise. (The French Stage in the 18th Century, Frederic Hawkins. )
May 1 – Voltaire begins his exile in England.
On 2 May 1726 Voltaire , he was escorted from the Bastille to Calais and embarked for Britain.[46]
In June 1726, Fleury convinced the king to deprive the Duke of Bourbon (18 August 1692 – 27 January 1740) of his ministry.
June 11 – Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon,( Henri I, Prince of Condé , is dismissed from being the Prime Minister of France (2 December 1723 – june 1 1726) and Jean Pâris de Monmartel (3 August 1690 at Moirans – 10 September 1766) is removed from his position as Guard of the Royal Treasury by King Louis XV. The King selects his former tutor, André-Hercule de Fleury to replace the Duke of Bourbon as his Chief Minister. Fleury and the Duke of Bourbon had clashed with each other in their services as adviser to the King, and Fleury's departure from the court in protest and led to his recall and the firing of the Duke.
Until 19 juin 1726 François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (né le 17 avril 1686 et mort le 7 janvier 1743, à Issy), was ministre de Guerre (1er juillet 1723 – 19 juin 1726
19 June 1726 at Lavaux (Belgique),Charles Antoine Ignace de MERCY-ARGENTEAU) (*1692) Maréchal des armées Austro-hongroises is Married to Thérèse Henriette de ROUVEROY, (born 18 May 1705, deceased 13 April 1729)
conc early july 1726 André Morellet (*7 March 1727) French economist, author of various writings, contributor to the Encyclopédie and one of the last Enlightenment Age philosophes.[1] Friend/son)of Voltaire and Benj.Fraklin
July 11 – André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury, recalled from exile by King Louis XV of France who also banishes Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, and Madame de Prie from court.
27 july 1726 Montesqieu aka Voltaire claims to have rejected an offer to represent King George in Vienna
28 July 1726 Bach had written to Erdmann on July 28, 1726 and although the letter did not survive…”Wolff concludes that Bach kept detailed record of his correspondence and propably other secretary/ies than just Elias Bach.
31 July 1726, Around this time Johann Bernoulli's two sons, Daniel and Nicolaus II Bernoulli, a.k.a. Niklaus Bernoulli, Nikolaus Bernoulli (6 February 1695, Basel, Switzerland – 31 July 1726, St. Petersburg, Russia), were working at the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. On 31 July 1726, Nicolaus died of appendicitis after spending less than a year in Russia.[13][14] When Daniel assumed his brother's position in the mathematics/physics division, he recommended that the post in physiology that he had vacated be filled by his friend Euler. In November 1726 Euler eagerly accepted the offer, but delayed making the trip to Saint Petersburg while he unsuccessfully applied for a physics professorship at the University of Basel.[15]
Conc Aug 1726) Florimond Claude, comte de Mercy-Argenteau (*20 April 1727 – 25 August 1794) was an Austrian diplomat, chevalier de la Toison d'Or , (relationship with Marie Rose Josèphe LEVASSEUR 1749-1826, known in her day as Mademoiselle Rosalie, and later commonly referred to as Rosalie Levasseur (8 October 1749 – 6 May 1826) was a French soprano who is best remembered for her work with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (*2 July 1714)) .
12 August 1726 Voltaire On the Advantages of Living in England, to M. Thieriot My dear Thieriot, I received your letter of May 11th very late. You know how unlucky I was in Paris.
30th August 1726 death of Eleonore Wilhelmine (* May 1696 in Köthen-+30 August 1726 in Weimar), daughter of Gisela Agnes and Emmanuel Lebrecht , married on 15 February 1714 to Frederick Erdmann of Saxe-Merseburg (1691-1714), and secondly on 24 January 1716 to Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar- (*19 April 1688 ie Voltaire), later inherited Eisenach and Jena
2 September 1726 Calandro is an opera buffa in three acts composed by Giovanni Alberto Ristori(*1692) to a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino (*March 1672). The libretto was based on the comedy Il Calandro by Bernardo Dovizi (Cardinal Bibbiena*1470). In turn, Dovizi's play borrowed elements of the plot from Plautus's Menaechmi and the character Calandro from Boccaccio's Decameron It was first staged on 2 September 1726 in Dresden.
mar. (2)Sep 1726 Henry [Boyle], 1st Earl of Shannon, PC *c. 1686 + 27 Dec 1764 (bur. in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin)his cousin Lady Harriet Boyle (b. 9 Feb 1700/
(silver coins issued by Hon. Henry Boyle with a harp on one side:
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*7 September 1726 (con dec 1725)born François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer .
September 11 – French bishop André-Hercule de Fleury, later Prime Minister for King Louis XV of France, is made a Roman Catholic Cardinal by Pope Benedict XIII.
September 23 – Charles VI, Charles VI (*1685+1740)Holy Roman Emperor, issues an order limiting the number of Jews who can be legally recognized as legitimate householders.[30]
September 24 – Permission to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 17, is extended by Pope Benedict XIII to the entire Roman Catholic Church.[31]
le 1 October 1726 Claude Dupin (*1686) became part of the Ferme générale on 1 October 1726, after he sold his office in Châteauroux. Samuel Bernard obtain this new post for his protégé, for a total of 500,000 livres.[10] The banker abandoned the debt a few years later, and providing the couple with the cancellation of any acknowledgment of debt.[11]
autumn 1726 Rameau *1683 at the Theatre de la Foire Le faux Prodigue, 2 acts, written by Piron.
Voltaire's first letter written in English, dated Oct. 26, 1726, shows that he already had a remarkable facility in the language though the niceties of irregular verbs,
30 October 1726 Prince Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski, (born April 26, 1696—died August 13, 1775, Warsaw, Poland), Polish statesman who made his family party of Czartoryskis, the so-called Familia, the leading party in Poland. married Countess Elenora Monika Waldstein on 30 October 1726 in Prague
9 November 1726 Vivaldi Dorilla in Tempe Antonio Maria Lucchini 9 November 1726 Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo
November 1726 Euler (15 April 1707, Basel, Switzerland , + 18 September 1783 St Petersburg, Russia) eagerly accepted the offer, but delayed making the trip to St Petersburg while he unsuccessfully applied for a physics professorship at the University of Basel, .Euler aka Claude Louis Robert Comte de Saint Gernain (*Born 13 April 1707)
Conc late Nov 1726 *August 01, 1727,Heinrich Christian von Keyserlingk, 1-st Graf Rautenburg (von Keyserling) +November 21, 1787
Conc early Dec 1726 , Claude Francois Rameau Born 8 August 1727 - Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois,Paris,75,fr, +???? (propably after 1794):
aka Claude Louis Robert de SAINT-GERMAIN comte de
Considering that Prince Leopold of Cöthen was *29 November 1694 , then his son Prince Emanuel Ludwig,* Sept 12, 1726 is most propably same as François-André Danican Philidor (September 7. 1726).