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Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (née Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was an educational reformer and philanthropist who established the first industrial school in England, and was an active abolitionist.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English 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]
Catherine or Katherine Gordon may refer to: Lady Catherine Gordon (c. 1474–1537), Scottish noblewoman who became a lady-in-waiting in England; Catherine Gordon (c. 1725–1779), daughter of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen; Catherine Gordon (fl. 1770–1811), mother of the poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, usually known as Lord Byron
In Barker's latest column, she discusses how Greece will mourn the bicentennial of the death of Baron Byron. "And now I give her my life” - The death of Lord Byron and the birth of Modern Greece ...
Lord Byron also used this shortened name in his journals. [15] At a party in Paris hosted by Napoleon III in the 1860s, the wife of the American ambassador introduced a wealthy American tourist, Mrs. Mary R. Darby, to the now elderly Contessa Guiccioli, saying she was one of the last people alive who knew Byron personally. [16] Mrs.
Lord Byron married Annabella Milbanke on 2 January 1815. At the end of that year, their only child was born, a girl later known as Ada Lovelace , the computer programmer. Over the next few months, their marriage crumbled, and in March 1816 they made a legal settlement of separation.
Augusta Maria Leigh (née Byron; 26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851) was the only surviving daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron, the poet Lord Byron's father, by his first wife, Amelia, née Darcy (Lady Conyers in her own right and the divorced wife of Francis, Marquis of Carmarthen).
Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont. [ 1 ] Born in Bath , England, she was initially named Alba , meaning "dawn", or "white", by her mother.