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William Fletcher, Byron's valet
Often the butt of humour by his famous master, Lord Byron, William Fletcher (1777–1839) was born in South Muskham, near Newark not far from the Byron ancestral home, Newstead Abbey. Byron scholar, Ralph Lloyd-Jones, discovered the accurate birth date and location after many years of research.
Fletcher served Byron from about 1804, at first as a groom and later as valet. He travelled to Europe and the East with Byron and John Cam Hobhouse from 1809 to late 1810, when Byron eventually sent Fletcher home to England, but not before the valet was witness to Byron's open interest in young males. He stayed in Byron's service for the rest of the poet's life, joining his exile in Europe following the marriage scandal of 1816. Fletcher was at Byron's bedside constantly during his last illness and accompanied the body to England.
Byron almost certainly drafted a second will while abroad, but as none was found, an earlier will was proved which left Fletcher no pension. Fletcher and Lega Zambelli, Byron's Italian secretary, tried to set up a macaroni business in London, but it failed when the government lifted the duty on importing Italian spaghetti. Zambelli seems to have continued importing Italian comestibles and the business passed to Fletcher's son who married Zambelli's daughter. Fletcher had to rely on the impecunious Augusta Leigh for funds but she was forced to stop his allowance in 1838 and his decline and death seem to have followed rapidly. Byron biographer Doris Langley-Moore claimed that Fletcher lived into his 80's, but Ralph Lloyd-Jones has discovered a newspaper report that Fletcher died in a London workhouse in 1839.
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