John Carr (travel writer)

Carr, from Devonshire, was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, but for health reasons began to travel.

Lord Byron met Carr at Cadiz, and referred to him in some suppressed stanzas of Childe Harold as "Green Erin's knight and Europe's wandering star".

[1] In 1803 Carr published The Stranger in France, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris, an immediate success.

It was followed in 1805 by A Northern Summer: or, Travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia and Part of Germany In The Year 1804; in 1806 by The Stranger in Ireland, or a Tour in the Southern and Western parts of that country in 1805, and in 1807 by A Tour through Holland, along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in 1806.

[1] In 1808 there appeared Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807, reviewed by Sir Walter Scott in the Quarterly Review; and in 1811 Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles in the year 1809.