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I feel that first of all I owe you a word of explanation why I, who have never studied the history of the Greek War of Independence, should have ventured to speak to you to-day about two of the best known of the Britons who then offered their services to Greece against the Turks. Finlay was an intimate friend and the executor of Hastings, and had in his possession much of his friend's correspondence and other papers. Consequently, when many years after Finlay's death, his library was presented to the British School, among his private papers, manuscripts and journals were found, those of Hastings as well. I have therefore drawn largely on this still unpublished material to illustrate the lives and careers of these two British Philhellenes.
page 110 note 1 This paper is the substance of a lecture delivered before the Athens Branch of the Anglo-Hellenic League on February 23rd, 1918.
page 111 note 1 Cf. Rados, , Φράνκ Ἄμπνευ Ἃστιγξ (Athens, 1917), pp. 15 ft.Google Scholar
page 113 note 1 The Biographical Sketch of Hastings in Blackwood's Magazine for October, 1845, was written by Finlay.
page 117 note 1 Richards, , Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe, i. pp. 186 ff.Google Scholar, especially pp. 205 ff.
page 119 note 1 Alexander Mavrocordatos, then Minister of Marine.
page 120 note 5 Dr. Howe refers to Hastings as: ‘This devoted and gallant Philhellene—his memory is deeply engraved in the minds of the Greeks; he will have a high rank in their history, and perhaps no foreigner deserves a higher. From his cold and ungainly manner, his want of address and of the common hypocrisy of society, he repelled acquaintance, he made few personal friends, and gave excellent opportunities to his enemies of injuring him; but his long tried and entire devotion to the cause of Greece, his sacrifice of time, comfort and money, his perfect sincerity, his courage, his enterprise, his knowledge of his profession, and more than all his daring and successful battles and honourable death, have forced upon the minds of all Greeks that he was among their greatest and best friends. His name is never mentioned without an eulogium and a regret that his merits had been so long concealed from them by his modesty.’ See Richards, , Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe, i, p. 334.Google Scholar
page 120 note 2 i.e. John Capo d'Istria, the President of Greece.
page 122 note 1 Oxford, 1877, vol. i. pp. xxxix, ff.
page 127 note 1 Richards, , Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe, i. p. 349.Google Scholar
page 128 note 1 Finlay's romantic marriage cannot be described here.
