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A very good sort of man : a life of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester St...

A very good sort of man : a life of Dr Charles Lewis Me...

A very good sort of man : a life of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester St...

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A very good sort of man : a life of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope / Mark Guscin.

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Full title

A very good sort of man : a life of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope / Mark Guscin.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, [2017]

Call Numbers

G 2017/5028

Record Identifier

74VKVWG4z6wd

MMS ID

991024139692602626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

x, 234 pages ; 26 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Meryon's early life -- Travelling with Lady Hester : from Portsmouth to Rhodes -- Travelling with Lady Hester : from Alexandria to Mar Elias -- Back in London and back to Lady Hester -- Complicated relationships -- Back again with Lady Hester -- Meryon's tormented fatherhood -- Charles Meryon : hist...

Publication information

Publisher

Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, [2017]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

[2017]

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Scope and Contents

Summary

The first ever biography of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), born in Rye (Sussex), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope and companion on her travels on various different occasions (to Malta, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and the Lebanon) during which he met Lord Byron, the Pasha of Egypt, and famed traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, among many other char...

Alternative Titles

Full title

A very good sort of man : a life of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope / Mark Guscin.

Portion of title

Life of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2017/5028

Record Identifier

74VKVWG4z6wd

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVWG4z6wd

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ISBN

1845198727 hardcover alkaline paper

9781845198725 hardcover alkaline paper

DDC

610.92 B

MMS ID

991024139692602626

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