His treatment of her was described as "brutal and vicious", and she died after having given birth to two daughters, only one of which survived: Byron's half-sister, Augusta.īyron's paternal grandparents were Vice-Admiral The Hon. Byron's father had previously seduced the married Marchioness of Caermarthen and, after she divorced her husband the Earl, had married her.
1811), a descendant of Cardinal Beaton and heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was the son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and his second wife, the former Catherine Gordon (d. He died at 36 years old from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi in Greece.īyron's names were changed throughout his life. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. It has been speculated that he suffered from bipolar I disorder, or manic depression. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad and dangerous to know". He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.īyron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile. Among Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.
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