biography
| name: |
Trelawny, Edward John
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pronunciation:
[trelawnee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1792–1881)
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| biography:
| Writer and adventurer, born in London, UK of an old and famous Cornish family. He ran away from school, entered the navy at 13, and was discharged in 1812. He recalled his experiences in the Adventures of a Younger Son (1831). He became friendly with Shelley and Byron at Pisa in 1822, and never recovered from Shelley's death by drowning; he helped to recover the body and supervised its cremation. A great favourite in London society and an incurable Romantic, he wrote Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author (1878); his ashes were buried next to Shelley's in Rome, a grave he had reserved for almost 60 years before his death. |
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