Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece
Including Facts Connected with the Last Days of Lord Byron, Extracts from Correspondence, Official Documents, Etc.

In this 1825 book, Blaquiere describes his own travels in Greece and the last days of Lord Byron.

Edward Blaquiere (Author)

9781108075978, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 July 2014

368 pages
21.5 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.48 kg

Edward Blaquiere (1779–1832), an Irishman of Huguenot descent, joined the Royal Navy in 1794 and served, chiefly in the Mediterranean, throughout the Napoleonic wars. In 1820, influenced by Jeremy Bentham, he went on his behalf to Spain to observe the revolution there. On the fall of the liberal regime in Spain in 1823, Blaquiere and his friend John Bowring formed the London Greek Committee to raise money for the Greek war of independence and to lobby the British government for support. (It was under the auspices of the Committee, and recruited by Blaquiere, that Lord Byron made his famous, and fatal, journey to Greece.) After his second visit to Greece, in 1825 Blaquiere published this account of his own travels and of the last days of Lord Byron. His 1824 book on the progress of the Greek revolution is also reissued in this series.

Introduction
Part I: Introduction
Personal narrative of the author's arrival
Part II: The last days of Lord Byron
Funeral oration
Account of the author's visit to Anatolico
Extracts from correspondence.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]