Edward John Trelawny
British adventurer and writer (1792-1881) · Writers · Died at 88
Edward John Trelawny was an English biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Trelawny was born to a family of modest income but extensive ancestral history.
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The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up by J. M. W. Turner, 1838
Copy of an 1822 signature of Edward John Trelawny indicating he was a captain.
The Funeral of Shelley, by Louis Édouard Fournier
Trelawny by Joseph Severn
Trelawny by Joseph Severn, 1838
Edward John Trelawny ca 1860
The North-West Passage, by John Everett Millais, 1874. Trelawny sat for the figure of old sailor.About this person
Though his father became wealthy while he was a child, Edward had an antagonistic relationship with him. After an unhappy childhood, he was sent away to a school. He was assigned as a volunteer in the Royal Navy shortly before he turned thirteen.
