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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [ 6 ]
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, better known as the poet Lord Byron, was born 22 January 1788 in Holles Street, London, England, and from 2 years old raised by his mother in Aberdeen, Scotland before moving back to England aged 10. His life was complicated by his father, who died deep in debt when he was a child.
21 May – George Gordon Byron became 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale on death of great-uncle. August – With his mother took up residence at ancestral home, Newstead Abbey, near Nottingham. 1799. Lived with Parkyns family, Nottingham. Tutored by "Dummer" Rogers. July – Removed to London by John Hanson, Byron’s lawyer & business agent.
"So, we'll go no more a roving" is a poem, written by (George Gordon) Lord Byron (1788–1824), and included in a letter to Thomas Moore on 28 February 1817. Moore published the poem in 1830 as part of Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. It evocatively describes how the youth at that time wanted to do something different.
First page of "A Fragment " 's first edition, in the Mazeppa collection (1819) "Fragment of Novel" is an unfinished 1819 vampire horror story written by Lord Byron.The story, also known as "A Fragment" and "The Burial: A Fragment", was one of the first in English to feature a vampire theme.
A letter describing Lord Byron’s memoirs, which were burned at the office of his publisher following his death, has been discovered at a University of Cambridge college.
Geoffrey Bond often imagines Lord Byron "looking down" as he sits in what was once the 19th Century poet's former bedroom. The 85-year-old has lived in Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire ...
Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron (8 March 1789 – 2 March 1868) was a British nobleman, naval officer, peer, politician, and the seventh Baron Byron, in 1824 succeeding his cousin the poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron in that peerage. As a career naval officer, he was notable for being his predecessor's opposite in ...