Sir Richard Church

(1784-1873)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Church, Richard, Sir, 1784-1873 NRA: Church, Sir Richard (1784-1873) Knight General in Greek Army DNB: Church, Sir Richard (1784-1873), soldier and philhellene LBT ID: RiChurc1873 VIAF ID: 70487493 LOC ID: n88175813	B/BAP: 1784 DIED: 1873-03-30
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He was colonel of Greek troops in the Ionian Islands (1812-15), a Neapolitan general, a leader of the Greek insurgents in 1827, and of the Greek revolution of 1843.
REFERENCES TO Sir Richard Church: Pietro Gamba, A Narrative of Lord Byron’s Last Journey to Greece. Extracted from the Journal of Count Peter Gamba, who attended that Expedition. (London: John Murray, 1825) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 37 James Hamilton Browne, “Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 35 (September 1834) 392-407 Found 1: ¶ 40 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XV Found 1: ¶ 8 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) THE BRUNELS Found 1: ¶ 6