Hunting the Ladies of the Raj: Part 2
This post carries on from a previous one at https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2015/07/hunting-ladies-of-raj-part-i.html Lord Byron in Albanian dress painted by Thomas Phillips in 1813. Venizelos Mansion, Athens (the British Ambassador's residence). Did he know any ladies of the Raj? My journalist visitor at Fairlynch Museum whom I mentioned p reviously was Mavis Ellis. She seems to have specialised in writing on 19 th century subjects including Lord Byron, who is buried at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall near her home in Nottinghamshire. A blue plaque identifies Henry Carter's home on Fore Street Hill, now known as Umbrella Cottage I sent her up the hill to look at Umbrella Cottage, the home of Henry Carter, the doctor, geologist and marine sponge expert who had spent so much of his working life in 19 th century India. She ...