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accidentally met by Lady Caroline Lamb and her husband. She fainted on being made aware that it was Byron's. Her mind became more affected; she was separated from her husband; and died 26 Jan. 1828, generously cared for by him to the last. (For Lady Caroline Lamb see Lady Morgan, Memoirs, i. 200–14; Annual Obituary for 1828; Mr. Townsend Mayer in Temple Bar for June 1868; Lord Lytton, Memoirs, vol. i.; Paul, Life of Godwin, vol. ii.).

Lady Byron afterwards led a retired life. Her daughter Ada was married to the Earl of Lovelace 8 July 1835, and died 29 Nov. 1852. She is said to have been a good mathematician. A portrait of her is in Bentley's ‘Miscellany’ for 1853. Lady Byron settled ultimately at Brighton, where she became a warm admirer and friend of F. W. Robertson. She took an interest in the religious questions of the day, and spent a large part of her income in charity. Miss Martineau (Biographical Sketches, 1868) speaks of her with warm respect, and some of her letters will be found in Crabb Robinson's diary. Others (see Howitt's letter in Daily News, 4 Sept. 1869) thought her pedantic and over strict. She died 16 May 1860. Mme. Guiccioli returned to her husband; she married the Marquis de Boissy in 1851 and died at Florence in March 1873.

The following appears to be a full list of original portraits of Byron (for fuller details see article by Mr. R. Edgcumbe and Mr. A. Graves in Notes and Queries, 6th series, vi. 422, 472, vii. 269). Names of proprietors added: 1. Miniature by Kaye at the age of seven. 2. Full-length in oils by Sanders; engraved in standard edition of Moore's life (Lady Dorchester). 3. Miniature by same from the preceding (engraving destroyed at Byron's request). 4. Half-length by Westall, 1814 (Lady Burdett-Coutts). 5. Half-length by T. Phillips, 1814 (Mr. Murray); engraved by Agar, R. Graves, Lupton, Mote, Warren, Edwards, and C. Armstrong. 6. Miniature by Holmes, 1815 (Mr. A. Morrison); engraved by R. Graves, Ryall, and H. Meyer. 7. Bust in marble by Thorwaldsen, 1816 (Lady Dorchester); replicas at Milan and elsewhere. 8. Half-length by Harlowe, 1817; engraved by H. Meyer, Holl, and Scriven. 9. Miniature by Prepiani, 1817, and another by the same; given to Mrs. Leigh. 10. Miniature in water-colours of Byron in college robes by Gilchrist about 1807–8; at Newstead. 11. Half-length in Albanian dress by T. Phillips, R.A. (Lord Lovelace); replica in National Portrait Gallery; engraved by Finden. 12. Pencil Sketch by G. Cattermole from memory (Mr. Toone). 13. Medallion by A. Stothard. 14. Bust by Bartolini, 1822 (Lord Malmesbury); lithographed by Fromentin. 15. Half-length by West (Mr. Horace Kent); engraved by C. Turner, Engleheart, and Robinson. 16. Three sketches by Count d'Orsay, 1823; one at South Kensington. 17. Statue by Thorwaldsen, finished 1834. This statue was ordered from Thorwaldsen in 1829 by Hobhouse in the name of a committee. Thorwaldsen produced it for 1,000l. It was refused by Dean Ireland for Westminster Abbey, and lay in the custom-house vaults till 1842, when it was again refused by Dean Turton. In 1843 Whewell, having just become master of Trinity, accepted it for the college, and it was placed in the library (Correspondence in Notes and Queries, 6th ser. iv. 421). 18. A silhouette cut in paper by Mrs. Leigh Hunt is prefixed to ‘Byron and some of his Contemporaries.’

Byron's works appeared as follows: 1. ‘Hours of Idleness’ (see above for a notice of first editions). 2. ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers’ (Cawthorne) (for full details of editions see Notes and Queries, 5th ser. vii. 145, 204, 296, 355). 3. ‘Imitations and Translations, together with original poems never before published, collected by J. C. Hobhouse, Trinity College, Cambridge’ (1809) (contains nine poems by Byron, reprinted in works, among ‘occasional pieces,’ 1807–8 and 1808–10). 4. ‘Childe Harold, a Romaunt,’ 4to, 1812 (an appendix of twenty poems, including those during his travels and those addressed to Thyrza). 5. ‘The Curse of Minerva’ (anonymous; privately printed in a thin quarto in 1812 (Lowndes); at Philadelphia in 1815, 8vo; Paris (Galignani), 12mo, 1818; and imperfect copies in Hone's ‘Domestic Poems’ and in later collections). 6. ‘The Waltz’ (anonymous), 1813 (again in Works, 1824). 7. ‘The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale,’ 1813, 8vo. 8. ‘The Bride of Abydos, a Turkish Tale,’ 1813, 8vo. 9. ‘The Corsair, a Tale,’ 1814, 8vo (to this were added the lines, ‘Weep, daughter of a royal line,’ omitted in some copies (see Letters of 22 Jan. and 10 Feb. 1814). 10. ‘Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte’ (anonymous), 8vo, 1814. 11. ‘Lara, a Tale,’ 1814, 8vo (originally published with Rogers's ‘Jacqueline’). 12. ‘Hebrew Melodies,’ 1815 (lines on Sir Peter Parker appended); also with music by Braham and Nathan in folio. 13. ‘Siege of Corinth,’ 1816, 8vo. 14. ‘Parisina,’ 1816, 8vo (this and the last together in second edition, 1816). 15. ‘Poems by Lord Byron’ (Murray), 1816, 8vo (‘When all around,’ ‘Bright be the place of thy soul,’ ‘When we two parted,’ ‘There's not a joy,’ ‘There be none of beauty's daughters,’ ‘Fare thee well;’ poems from the French and lines to Rogers). The original