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Revealed: Lord Byron's £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece

Revealed: Lord Byron’s £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece
Helena Smith in Athens
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Photograph: Glyn Genin/Alamy
Racked by fever, prone to fits of delirium, consumed by his last great passion – the liberation of Greece – Lord Byron lay on his sickbed. It was 18 April 1824. The great Romantic poet would be dead the next day.
“I have given her [Greece] my time, my means, my health,” he is recorded as saying in a moment of lucidity. “And now I give her my life! What could I do more?”
Byron’s death in Missolonghi, the malaria-ridden town where he had spearheaded the Greeks’ revolt against Ottoman rule, induced instant shock, convulsing the English-speaking world. ....

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The poet’s generosity 200 years ago helped to pave the way to independence, and he is still seen as a hero ....

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Revealed: Lord Byron's £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece

Revealed: Lord Byron's £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece
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