William Fletcher

(1831 fl.)

LBT ID: WiFletc1831
SOURCES: Marchand, Byron, a Biography (1957)
Byron's valet, the son of a Newstead tenant; he continued in service to the end of the poet's life, after which he was pensioned by the family. He married Anne Rood, formerly maid to Augusta Leigh, and was living in London in 1831.
REFERENCES TO William Fletcher: Lord Byron to Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, 30 June 1807 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Lord Byron to Mrs. Byron, 22 June 1809 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Mrs. Byron, 12 November 1809 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 4: ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 Lord Byron to Mrs. Byron, 19 March 1810 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Mrs. Byron, 28 June 1810 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 ¶ 9 Lord Byron to Mrs. Byron, 25 July 1810 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Lord Byron to Mrs. Byron, 30 July 1810 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Mrs. Byron, 14 January 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Mrs. Byron, 28 February 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Mrs. Byron, 25 June 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Samuel Bolton, 12 August 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Augusta Leigh to John Murray, 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Theresa Villiers to Lady Byron, 18 July 1816 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 5-2 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 21 September 1818 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 30 December 1818 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, [July 1819] in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 22 October 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 28 October 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 November 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 28 September 1819 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 18 November 1820 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 6 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 21 December 1820 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 19 May 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ n1 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Preliminary Statement Found 4: ¶ 68 ¶ 69 ¶ 70 ¶ 71 Chapter IV Found 3: ¶ 15 ¶ 18 ¶ 23 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron at home; recollections of Swiss society; on duelling Found 3: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 11 Byron's marriage and separation Found 2: ¶ 14 ¶ 30 Byron's fever at Constantinople Found 1: ¶ 1 Byron's acquatic exploits Found 1: ¶ 3 Private theatricals: Othello Found 1: ¶ 7 Lady Caroline Lamb Found 1: ¶ 7 Francesco Bruno to James Kennedy, 18 March 1824 in Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 15 May 1824 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Francesco Bruno to James Kennedy, 18 May 1824 in Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Fletcher to Dr. James Kennedy, 18 May 1824 in The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Fletcher to James Kennedy, 19 May 1824 in Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Pietro Gamba to James Kennedy, 21 May 1824 in Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 9 Pietro Gamba to James Kennedy, 18 March 1824 in Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 10 Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 31 May 1824 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 25 June 1824 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Bowring, John, Sir, 1792-1872, “Lord Byron in Greece” in Westminster Review 2 (July 1824) 225-62 Found 1: ¶ 1 Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 8 July 1824 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray, 13 July 1824 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 29 July 1824 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Francesco Bruno, “Last Moments of Lord Byron” in The Examiner (22 August 1824) 530 Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Southern Henry (1799-1853), “Personal Character of Lord Byron” in London Magazine 10 (October 1824) 337-47 Found 3: ¶ 24 ¶ 27 ¶ 28 [Thomas Colley Grattan?], “Lord Byron and his Memoirs” in The Attic Miscellany 1 (October 1824) 26-37 Found 2: ¶ 16 ¶ 37 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Found 1: ¶ 90 Murray, John, 1778-1843, “Lord Byron and Mr. Murray” in The Courier (5 November 1824) Found 1: ¶ 24 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 VI Found 4: ¶ 23 ¶ 26 ¶ 31 ¶ 32 Parry, William, fl. 1825, The Last Days of Lord Byron (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 21 Chapter V Found 8: ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 21 ¶ 25 ¶ 35 ¶ 42 ¶ 1 ¶ 2 “The Last Days of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine 95 (June 1825) 517-21 Found 1: ¶ 14 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “The Last Days of Lord Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 18 (August 1825) 137-55 Found 1: ¶ 23 “Parry v. Hunt” in The Times (15 June 1827) Found 3: ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 20 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 3: ¶ 14 ¶ 17 ¶ 128 “Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries” in New Monthly Magazine NS 22 (January 1828) 84-96 Found 1: ¶ 9 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Literary Chronicle (26 January 1828) 49-52 Found 1: ¶ 10 [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 1: ¶ 7 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 362-408 Found 1: ¶ 42 Kennedy, James, 1793?-1827, Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Third Conversation Found 1: ¶ 15 Fifth Conversation Found 1: ¶ 1 Memoir of Byron Found 4: ¶ 5 ¶ 26 ¶ 39 ¶ n1 Appendix Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 12 Chapter XLIII Found 2: ¶ 34 ¶ n1 Chapter XLVII Found 9: ¶ 9 ¶ 12 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 20 ¶ 27 ¶ 28 ¶ 32 Chapter XLVIII Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Anecdotes of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1809 Verse 2: p. 192b p. 192b Life of Byron: 1810 Life of Byron: 1811 Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 3 Life of Byron: 1816 (I) Found 1: ¶ 48 Life of Byron: 1818 Found 1: ¶ 27 Life of Byron: 1819 Found 1: ¶ 39 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 4: ¶ 58 ¶ n1 ¶ 9 ¶ 2 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 8: ¶ 53 ¶ 56 ¶ 57 ¶ 65 ¶ 67 ¶ 72 ¶ 73 ¶ 93 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (16 January 1830) 33-38 Found 1: ¶ 39 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (23 January 1830) 53-55 Found 1: ¶ 10 “Lord Byron” in Asiatic Journal NS 1 (February 1830) 145-55 Found 3: ¶ 27 ¶ 48 ¶ 57 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Verse 2: p. 190d p. 190d “Byron’s Memoirs” in Monthly Magazine NS XI (February 1831) 145-59 Found 1: ¶ 72 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Lord Byron’s Character and Writings” in The Southern Review 5 (May 1830) 463-522 Found 1: ¶ n2 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Athenaeum (4 September 1830) 552-55 Found 2: ¶ 35 ¶ 46 Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece (London: John Rodwell, 1831) Chapter XII Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter XV Found 1: ¶ 4 “[Moore’s Life of Lord Byron]” in The Edinburgh Literary Journal (8 January 1831) 19-23 Found 1: ¶ 3 “Lord Byron” in Monthly Review NS 1 (February 1831) 217-37 Found 2: ¶ 36 ¶ 72 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, “Trelawny’s Journal” in Literary Gazette (12 February 1831) 97-98 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 2: ¶ 40 ¶ 124 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c.” in Literary Gazette (4 February 1832) 73-74 Found 1: ¶ 5 [William Bourne Oliver Peabody], “Lord Byron's Conversations on Religion” in North American Review 36 (January 1833) 152-188 Found 3: ¶ 28 ¶ 33 ¶ 34 James Hamilton Browne, “Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron, and Visit to the Seat of War in Greece” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 35 (August 1834) 56-67 Found 1: ¶ 12 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: ¶ 11 William Howitt , “Leigh Hunt” in Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets 2 Vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1847) 347-67 Found 1: ¶ Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter XIV. Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter XVIII. Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 12 Chapter XXI. Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XV. 1816-18. Chapter XVIII. 1824-27. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XV. Chapter XVII. Chap. XXX. Found 1: ¶ 18 Chap. XXXV. Found 1: ¶ 19 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) I. Byron Characteristics Found 1: ¶ n2 II. Three Stages of Lord Byron’s Life Found 1: ¶ 6 VII. Informers and Defamers Found 1: ¶ 19 X. Lady Byron and Mrs. Leigh (II) XI. Byron and Augusta Notes by the Editor Found 1: ¶ 5