Talk at 60 Knightsbridge - "An Evening with Lord Strathcarron, following in Lord Byron’s wake” — 24 March '11

Thursday 24th March, 6.45pm

On June 14th 2008  sailors Ian and Gillian Strathcarron boarded their Freedom 40 'Vasco da Gama' at Bucklers Hard and sailed off to recreate Lord Byron's Grand Tour. Their own voyage was propitious and perilous, mysterious and mischievous - but seldom abstemious.

Lord Strathcarron's witty and perceptive talk reveals much about Lord Byron and much too about how the world has changed in two centuries.  Following in Byron's footsteps, revisiting the places the poet visited two hundred years ago and comparing what he found then to what one finds there now. At each point the his Tour meets today's equivalents to the kings, consuls, governors, chieftains and gangsters that the Grand Tour met before it. 

For more information or to book this free event please click here or contact the Secretariat on 0207 201 6267.

The Coffee Room will be open for dinner afterwards and it is advisable to reserve a table.