The nearly 200-year-old missive was with the National Historical Park for more than 50 years and occasionally touted among Byron enthusiasts ...

Lord Byron liked to spend money and he liked to party. ... "Byron had the most appalling cartoons done of him that made the headlines of current day newspapers look like chicken feed.

“Lord Byron could not have been more than 30,” one visitor remarked, “but he looked 40. His face had become pale, bloated and sallow. He had grown very fat, ...

The British poet Lord Byron arrived in Greece on Christmas Eve 1823 to join the country’s fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire. A mere hundred days later, on April 19, 1824, he died ...

Geoffrey Bond often imagines Lord Byron "looking down" as he sits in what was once the 19th Century poet's former bedroom. The 85-year-old has lived in Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire ...

Lord Byron was rumoured to have had a child with his half-sister as well as having affairs and running up debts - and he was the owner of a pet bear. He travelled widely in Europe, ...

Even before rumours of his affair with his half-sister spread, Lord Byron had a reputation for scandal. His lover Lady Caroline Lamb famously described him as “mad, bad and dangerous to know ...

A previously unpublished letter written by one of Britain's most infamous poets - Lord Byron - is to go under the hammer at auction in March. The letter, written in 1813, was discovered in a ...