LORD BYRON
GREEK PREMIER’S TRIBUTE.
(British Official B’/reiess.]
RUGBY, July IS.
The Greek Prime Minister, M. Vemzelos, yesterday took part in the ceremonies at Newstead Abbey, the ancestral home of Lord Byron, which lias been shifted to the City o. Nottingham, and is to be maintained in perpetuity for the enjoyment of the public and in memory of the poet. M. Venizclos said that he brought to the memory of Lord Byron the deep and sincere homage, gratitude and remembrance of the whole Greek nation. Modern Greek history, lie said, had been enriched with the magic of the great English poet, and nobody could thing of a. free Greece without thinking at the same time of Lord Byron and of his death for the freedom of Greece.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1931, Page 5
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