Anthony Lane writes on Lord Byron, who died two hundred years ago this April, ... in 1788, with a plainer name: George Gordon Byron. The baby’s mother was Catherine Gordon, a Scottish heiress, ...

Lady Caroline Lamb called her lover, the poet George Gordon — the Sixth Baron Byron — “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” Now the aristocrat of centuries past is the center of an exhibit, ... The ...

Young voyager: the unsentimental George Sanders portrait, 1807-08. Byron commissioned this portrait, for a fee of 250 guineas, from the Scottish portraitist and miniaturist George Sanders, as a ...

As Lord Byron takes centre stage in the West End, Boyd Tonkin explains how an outspoken champion of the poor became a cultural superstar. Boyd Tonkin Thursday 16 February 2012 01:00 GMT ...

It is near where Lord Byron lived in Newstead Abbey. George Gordon, the sixth Baron Byron, died 200 years ago on April 19 in Greece, fighting for Greek independence against the Ottoman Empire, ...

Most probably, Byron would be delighted that we are still talking about him and what a difficult man he was. Sadly, the letter can only tease at what was in the memoirs – though it seems to confirm – ...

Byron was born in 1788 with a slightly deformed foot, about which he remained sensitive his whole life. His birth name was George Gordon, but following the deaths of two relatives, he suddenly ...

This April marks 200 years since Lord George Byron – “mad, bad and dangerous to know” as one of his lovers described him – died in Missolonghi, Greece at the age of 36. A rebellious, freedom-fighting ...

So, this poem is called "When We Two Parted," and it's by George Gordon, better known as Lord Byron. He was someone who was focused on being free, doing whatever he wanted to do. He lived a very ...

In the rakish footsteps of Lord Byron Britain’s most (in)famous poet died 200 years ago today ... George Gordon Byron would grow up to be one of the most feted poets of the Romantic era.