![]() ![]() This experience and his idealized love for his distant cousins Mary Duff and Margaret Parker shaped his paradoxical attitudes toward women.Īt the age of 10, George inherited the title and estates of his great-uncle, the “wicked” Lord Byron. It was rumored that his nurse, May Gray, made physical advances to him when he was only nine. ![]() He was extremely sensitive of his lameness its effect upon his character was obvious enough. Born with a clubfoot, he was taken by his mother, Catherine Gordon, to Aberdeen, Scotland, where they lived in lodgings on a meager income. BiographyĪs a child he was known simply as George Noel Gordon. He died of fever and exposure while engaged in the Greek struggle for independence. His major works include Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-18) and Don Juan (1819-24). He was also a satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. ![]() He was among the most famous of the English ‘Romantic’ poets his contemporaries included Percy Shelley and John Keats. George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was born 22 January 1788 in London and died 19 April 1824 in Missolonghi, Greece. ![]()
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