Life
1784-1873; ‘liberator of Greece’; b. Cork, Quaker; British Army
in Egypt, Italy, and Ionian Islands; pleaded for Greek Independence at
Council of Vienna; served Neapolitan Govt, 1816; expelled by revolutionaries
when commander-in-chief of Sicily in 1820; knighted 1822; led Greek revolutionary
campaign in Western Greece; settled in Greece; member of Council of State,
inspector general of the Army; d. 30 March 1873, Athens. ODNB DIB DIL
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References
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (1984),
Richard Church, b. Cork, Generalissimo of Greek forces in 1827; bibl.,
S Lane-Poole, Sir Richard Church etc. (London 1890); EM Church, Chapters
in an Adventurous Life, Sir Richard Church in Italy and Greece (Edinburgh
and London 1895); Church’s papers are in the British museum. [224;
notes, 240]
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