George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street in London – his birthplace is now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store John Lewis.īyron was the only child of Captain John Byron (known as 'Jack') and his second wife Catherine Gordon, heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Byron's extramarital children include Allegra Byron, who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh, daughter of his half-sister Augusta Leigh.Īn engraving of Byron's father, Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron, date unknown
His only marital child, Ada Lovelace, is regarded as a foundational figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted after the First and Second Siege of Missolonghi. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks revere him as a folk hero. During his stay in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular. One of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, Byron is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS ( Greek: Λόρδος Βύρωνας, romanized: Lórdos Výronas 22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), simply known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and peer.
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