Edward John Trelawny was born in 1792, the son of an army officer. After a short term in the navy he shipped for India, but deserted at Bombay. For several years he led an adventurous life in India, but eventually settled in England. He met Shelley and Byron at Pisa in 1822, and passed nearly every day with one or both of them until the drowning of Shelley. Permission having been refused him to write the life of Shelley, he began an account of his own life in the Adventures of a Younger Son (1835), followed much later by a second part: Recollections of Shelley and Byron (1858). He married a third time, but the irregularity of his life estranged him from his wife, and he died at Sompting, near Worthing, on the 13th of August 1881. His ashes were buried in Rome by the side of those of Shelley.
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