John Tweddell

[5] In a Latin prize essay read out in a crowded Cambridge Senate House in 1792, on the topic An imperium magnum cum æquâ omnium Libertate constare possit?

[3] At that period Tweddell was involved in radical politics, writing to Parr about the formation of the Society of the Friends of the People.

[10] When Joseph Priestley emigrated to America in 1793, Tweddell (with Frend, Godfrey Higgins and Losh) presented him with an inkstand.

[14] Henry Gunning found Tweddell free with his views, on the early French Revolution, the Pitt administration and the treason trials of 1794, to the point of indiscretion.

[6][15] Intending to become a diplomat, Tweddell started on a European tour in the autumn of 1795, going first to Hamburg with a companion named Webb.

He met on the way Madame de Staël, Johann Kaspar Lavater and Jacques Necker in Switzerland; Count Rumford; and Lord Whitworth in Moscow.

As the result of efforts of Lord Byron and others, a block of marble from the bas-reliefs of the Parthenon was later erected over his grave, with a Greek inscription written by the Rev.

[2] It includes his political views of the time, on freedom and the rights of man:[3] he had spoken in Trinity College Chapel on liberty in 1789.

[6][22] The fate of John Tweddell's journals, paintings and possessions, in wartime conditions, led to a murky scandal fifteen years later.