Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron was born in London on 22 January 1788 with a club foot and was raised in Aberdeen by his mother after his father's death. At ten he inherited the title of Baron Byron and the family estate of Newstead Abbey. He studied at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1809-11 travelled through Portugal, Spain, Albania and Greece. The first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, published in 1812, made him instantly famous. His marriage to Annabella Milbanke in 1815 produced a daughter, Ada, later known for her work on Babbage's calculating engine, but it broke down within a year amid scandal, and in 1816 Byron left England for good. In Switzerland and Italy he wrote The Prisoner of Chillon, the later cantos of Childe Harold and the satire Don Juan. In 1823 he went to Greece to aid its war of independence, and he died of fever at Missolonghi on 19 April 1824.

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Faith: Raised on Scottish Calvinist teaching in Aberdeen and baptised in the Church of England, Byron was a sceptic for most of his adult life, though he wrote the biblical Hebrew Melodies and remained preoccupied with sin, guilt and predestination. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

See also: Percy Bysshe Shelley · Mary Shelley · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Walter Scott · John Keats