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Edward
John Trelawny (13 November 1792 – 13 August 1881) was a
British biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his
friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord
Byron. Trelawny was born in England to a family of modest income but
extensive ancestral history. 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.
Trelawny became friends with several artists and writers, including Algernon
Charles Swinburne, Joseph Boehm, Edward Lear,
and Richard Edgcumb.[165][166] He
became a friend of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti as he was working on a new edition of Shelley's poems.[166] In
1844 Robert Browning met with
Trelawny in Italy.[167]
Trelawny married Jane Williams in 1872. Williams was the only close friend of Percy
Shelley to outlive Trelawny.[192] In
August 1881 he suffered a fall while out on a walk. He was bedridden and died
two weeks later.[193] His
ashes were buried in Rome in a plot of ground adjacent to Percy Bysshe
Shelley's grave. He had purchased this plot in 1822 at the time he had
arranged for Shelley's ashes to be reburied in a more suitable site within the
Protestant Cemetery.[182] At
his request his grave marker bears a quote from Shelley's poem "Epitaph".[194]
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