On April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died at Missolonghi, where he had gone to lend his name and give financial support to the Greek war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. After being drenched by ...

An exceptionally rare letter from the original “Wild Child” and poet Lord Byron that has never been published before has been discovered in a country house. The letter was found in a mansion ...

Byron was in the van of those poets who came to be known as “Romantics,” and his life had something of the turbulence of a fairy tale. The future Lord Byron was born in 1788 to a family that could ...

The young man is Lord Byron and his Cornelian is the Cambridge chorister John Edleston. He appears as “the Cornelian” in Byron’s prose writing, named for a gift he had given Byron.