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Sir John Thomas Claridge (1792-1868), Recorder for the Straits Settlements from 1825 to 1829, was a school friend of the poet, Lord Byron (1788-1824). Claridge attended Harrow from 1805, Byron’s final year there, to 1810, and was member of a small circle of what the poet called his ‘favourites’. John Claridge was born in 1792, into a middle-class family in Sevenoaks, Kent, the son of John Fellowes Claridge, a solicitor and partner in a law firm with Francis Austen, a great uncle of Jane Austen. His younger brother, George Claridge (1794-1856) a solicitor who practiced in the family firm in Sevenoaks was nationally known as an amateur cricketer of some note, playing in matches for Hampshire and Kent. == Relationship with Lord Byron ==
Although Byron left Harrow in 1805, he continued to visit the school regularly, staying with Henry Drury, his former tutor, with whom Claridge boarded. Over a dozen letters from Claridge to Byron survive in the John Murray Archive and cover a period from 1808 to 1811. In them there are strong hints that the poet exerted a powerful attraction on the youth who expresses his love for Byron in unequivocal terms. Claridge stayed at Newstead over Easter 1809 and he was present when the poet and his friends John Hobhouse, Scrope Berdmore Davies, Charles Skinner Matthews and James Wedderburn Webster dressed up as monks, drank from a skull and consorted with ‘Paphian girls’ (more accurately, female servants). Matthews, who was homosexual, and the bisexual Byron may also have been interested in the handsome boy. Byron, on his return from Greece in 1811, renewed the friendship, but after a month of Claridge’s company, became rapidly bored. This is what he wrote in September that year: In letters to Hobhouse that Autumn, he execrates Claridge’s dullness, fending off a claim of an ''‘attachment’'' to the youth and eventually dismisses him with ''‘Claridge is gone’''. So the friendship ended suddenly. Claridge’s letters stop and Byron never referred to him again in his thousands of letters or occasional journals.
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