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    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...
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    (not by Lord Byron, but attributed to him; 1830s) Biography portal Poetry portal Arts portal Early life of Lord Byron Timeline of Lord Byron 19th century...
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    calculation. Ada Byron was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron and reformer Anne Isabella Milbanke. All Lovelace's half-siblings, Lord Byron's other children...
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    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...
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    Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont. Born...
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    to be published. As early as 1809, while travelling in Albania with his friend John Cam Hobhouse, Byron wrote an account of his life and thoughts. Hobhouse...
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    from 1819 to 1824 by the English poet Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as historically...
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    Lady Caroline Lamb (category Lord Byron)
    known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. In 1812, she had an affair with Lord Byron, whom she described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Her husband...
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  • William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (5 November 1722 – 19 May 1798), was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great-uncle of the poet George Gordon Byron who...
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    work by Lord Byron published in 1821. In Cain, Byron dramatizes the story of Cain and Abel from Cain's point of view. Cain is an example of the literary...
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  • Byron is a historical play by the British writer Alicia Ramsey, which was first performed in 1908. It depicts the life of the early nineteenth-century...
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  • the three legitimate grandchildren of poet Lord Byron. Lord Ockham was the eldest son of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace and his wife, Ada Lovelace...
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    Idler in France (1841) Digitized version of Journal of conversation with Lord Byron. 1859. Her Literary Life and Correspondence (3 vols), edited by Richard...
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    of Sacrifices. At Cambridge he founded the "Whig Club," and the "Amicable Society". While at Cambridge Broughton became good friends with Lord Byron,...
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  • Nicolo Giraud (category Lord Byron)
    1815) was a friend of English Romantic poet Lord Byron. The two met in 1809 while Byron was staying in Athens. Giraud, who at that time of their relationship...
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  • and writer George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron. Byron is the son of Lt. Col. Richard Geoffrey Gordon Byron, 12th Baron Byron, and Dorigen Margaret Esdaile...
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    He rose to Vice Admiral of the White before his death in 1786. His grandsons include the poet Lord Byron and George Anson Byron, admiral and explorer,...
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  • Earl of Lovelace (2 July 1839 – 28 August 1906) was a British author of Astarte: A Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, Sixth Lord Byron. He...
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    Byronic hero (category Lord Byron)
    hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Historian and critic Lord Macaulay described...
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    The Prisoner of Chillon is a 392-line narrative poem by Lord Byron. Written in 1816, it chronicles the imprisonment of a Genevois monk, François Bonivard...
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    Lord Byron of Broadway (1930), also known as What Price Melody?, is an American Pre-Code musical drama film, directed by Harry Beaumont and William Nigh...
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    The letters of Lord Byron, of which about 3,000 are known, range in date from 1798, when Byron was 10 years old, to 9 April 1824, a few days before he...
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  • Lady Caroline Lamb (film) (category Cultural depictions of Lord Byron)
    epic romantic drama film based on the life of Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist, sometime lover of Lord Byron and wife of politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount...
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    poet Lord Byron in 1819. It is based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan Mazepa (1639–1709), who later became Hetman (military leader) of Ukraine...
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    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (category Poetry by Lord Byron)
    parts written by Lord Byron. The poem was published between 1812 and 1818. Dedicated to "Ianthe", it describes the travels and reflections of a young man disillusioned...
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  • Samuel Barff (category Philhellenes in the Greek War of Independence)
    in a series of letters addressed to him from Missolonghi by Lord Byron early in 1824, which are preserved in Moore's 'Life of Lord Byron.' Barff was counted...
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    Claire Clairmont (category Lord Byron)
    was the stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra. She is thought to be the subject of a poem by Percy Bysshe...
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    Byron (1757 – 2 August 1791) was a British Army officer and letter writer, best known as the father of the poet Lord Byron. In 1824, an obituary of his...
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    The Corsair (category Poetry by Lord Byron)
    by Lord Byron (see 1814 in poetry) and published by John Murray in London. It was extremely popular, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale...
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    Elizabeth Medora Leigh (category Lord Byron)
    was the third daughter of Augusta Leigh. It is widely speculated that she was fathered by her mother's half-brother Lord Byron; this is supported by comments...
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