Full Name: George Gordon Noel Byron.
Nickname: Lord Byron.

Father: Captain John Byron (d. 1791).
Mother: Catherine Gordon (b. 1765, d. 1811).
Wife: Annabella Milbanke ( m. 1815, separated 1816).
Daughter: Ada Lovelace (1815-52), Allegra Byron.
Girlfriend: Countess Teresa Gamba Guiccioli.

Date of Birth: 22 January 1788.
Birth Place: London, England, Great Britain.

Date of Death: 19 April 1824 (aged 36).
Death Place: Missolonghi, Aetolia-Acarnania, Ottoman Empire.
Cause of Death: Fever.
Remains/Buried: St. Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England.

Gender: Male.
Race or Ethnicity: White.
Occupation: Poet, Politician.
Political Movement: Romanticism.
Nationality: England.
High School: Harrow School, England (1801-05).
University: Trinity College, Cambridge University (1805-08).

Influenced by: John Milton, Alexander Pope, Edmund Spenser, and William Godwin.

Notable Works: 
  • Hours of Idleness (1807, poetry)
  • English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18, poetry)
  • The Giaour (1813, poetry)
  • The Bride of Abydos (1813, poetry)
  •  The Corsair (1814, poetry)
  • Lara (1814, poetry)
  • The Prisoner of Chillon (1816, poetry)
  • Manfred (1817, poetry)
  • Don Juan (1819-24, poetry)
English poet George Gordon Noel Byron later Lord Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He created the concept of the 'Byronic hero' - a defiant, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable event in his past. Lord Byron was born at Holles Street in London, the son of a Guards Officer, Captain John Byron. His mother, Catherine Gordon, took him in 1790 to Aberdeen, where they lived in considerable poverty. In 1799, when he was 11, was sent to school in Dulwich, and in 1801 to Harrow. He then attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he formed a close friendship with John Cam Hobhouse. . At the age of 18, he published Fugitive Pieces in 1806 was his first poetry. In 1807 Byron published his first book of poetry, Hours of Idleness.

In January 1815 at the age of 27, He was married to Annabella Millbank and she gave birth to a daughter (Ada Lovelace) in December but left him in January 1816 (28), and never returned. In 1822 Byron, Leigh Hunt, and Percy Bysshe Shelley travelled to Italy where the three men published the political journal, The Liberal. The first edition was mainly written by Leigh Hunt but also included work by William Hazlitt, Mary Shelley and Byron's Vision of Judgement. Three more editions were published but after Shelley's death, The Liberal came to an end. After falling ill on February 15, 1824, Lord Byron was given the remedy of bloodletting which weakened him further. Following a violent fever, Byron breathed his last at the age of 36, on April 19, 1824.