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A Short Biography of Lord George Byron

Author Name:

Lord George Byron

Born As:

George Gordon Byron

Other Names:

George Gordon Noel Byron, from 1822.

Born:

22 Jan 1788

Died:

19 Apr 1824




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Poet and writer                          
Selected Works:

Hours of Idleness - 1806
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers - 1809
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - 1812 – 1818
The Giaour - 1813
The Bride of Abydos - 1813
The Corsair - 1814
Lara - 1814
Hebrew Melodies - 1815
The Siege of Corinth - poem - 1816
Parisina - 1816
The Prisoner Of Chillon - 1816
The Dream - 1816
Prometheus - 1816
Darkness - 1816
Manfred - 1817 
The Lament of Tasso - 1817
Beppo - 1818
Mazeppa - 1819
The Prophecy of Dante - 1819
Marino Faliero - 1820
Sardanapalus - 1821
The Two Foscari - 1821
Cain - 1821
The Vision of Judgement - 1821
Heaven and Earth - 1821
Werner - 1822
The Deformed Transformed - 1822
The Age of Bronze - 1823
The Island - 1823
Don Juan - 1819 – 1824; incomplete on Byron's death in 1824

Minor works:

So, we'll go no more a roving
The First Kiss of Love - 1806
Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination - 1806
To a Beautiful Quaker - 1807
The Cornelian - 1807
Lines Addressed to a Young Lady - 1807 
Lachin y Garr - 1807
Epitaph to a Dog - 1808
She Walks in Beauty - 1814
When We Two Parted.                          
Mother Catherine Gordon
Father  Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron                          
Who, both by precept and example, shows
That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.                          
Byron had two last names, in addition to his title, but only one at any given time. He was christened George Gordon Byron in London. Gordon was a baptismal name, not a surname, to honour his maternal grandfather. In order to claim his wife's estate in Scotland, Byron's father took the surname Gordon. Byron was registered at school in Aberdeen as George Byron Gordon. At age 10, he inherited the English family title, becoming George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron of Rochdale. When his mother-in-law died, her will required that he change his surname to Noel in order to inherit half her estate. He was thereafter George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. He then signed himself "Noel Byron".