Biography of Lord Byron

George Gordon, Lord Byron was born in London in1788. He had great personal beauty, combined with the physical deformity of a club foot. He inherited his title when he was ten and at thirteen he went to Harrow and later to Trinity College, Cambridge. He enjoyed close friendship with men of discernment and intelligence.

He published his Juvenilia in 1809 under the title, Hours of idleness. These attracted the indulgent notice of some critics. From 1811 he travelled in Europe and the Levent. On his return he entered the House of Lords, where his maiden speech attracted favourable comment, in 1812 he published the first two cantos of Childe Harold. For the next four years Byron enjoyed a literary and social success unparalleted.

In 1815 he married Anne Milbanke, an heiress; after a brief and turbulent marriage she sought a separation the following year. The society which had idolised him now ostracised him and in 1816 he went abroad, never he return. In 1823 he went to Greece to join the insurgents but the following year he died of ever at Missolonghi.