Gustavus Mathias Hippisley

(1770-1831)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hippisley, G. (Gustavus) LBT ID: GuHippi1831 LOC ID: n2007036988	B/BAP: 1770 DIED: 1831-07-15
SOURCES: thePeerage.com; David Sinclair, The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History (2003); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Irish colonel who in 1817 raised a force in support of Bolivar's revolution; Byron found his book on the subject soporific.
REFERENCES TO Gustavus Mathias Hippisley: 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 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 2: Literary Labour Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 6 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter XVII. Found 1: ¶ 2