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Who was Lord Byron? Poet. Date and Place of Birth: Born as George Gordon on 22nd January 1788, London, England. Family Background: Son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, a Scottish heiress. Education: Aberdeen Grammar School. Harrow School. Trinity College, Cambridge. Chronology: 1788: Moves to Aberdeen with mother. 1791: 2nd August Death of his father. 1798: Becomes 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale. Visits Newstead Abbey for the first time. 1808: Takes possession of Newstead Abbey. 1809: 13th March. Takes up his seat in the House of Lords. 2nd July. Leaves England to travel in Europe, Greece and Turkey. 1811: Returns to England. Death of his mother. 1812: Makes maiden speech in the House of Lords. Becomes famous on the publication of the first parts of “Childe Harold”. Has affairs with Lady Caroline Lamb and Lady Oxford. 1813: Affair with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Becomes engaged to Annabella Milbanke. 1815: Birth of Daughter Augusta Ada. 1816: Lady Byron leaves to live with her parents. 21st April. Deed of Separation signed. 25th April. Leaves England and lives in Switzerland (May-October). Becomes friendly with Shelley. Affair with Claire Clairmont who becomes pregnant. November. Settles in Venice. 1817: 12th January, Birth of Allegra, his daughter by Claire Clairmont. 1818: Takes charge of Allegra. 1819: Has affair in Venice with Countess Teresa Guiccioli. 1820: Lives in Ravenna, Italy. Countess Guiccioli is separated from her husband. Byron joins an Italian revolutionary society called the Carbonari. 1821: Sends Allegra to a convent in Bagnacavello. Moves to Pisa where Shelley is now staying. 1822: 20th April. Allegra dies of typhoid fever. 8th July. Shelley drowns in a boating accident. Moves to Genoa and becomes involved with Leigh Hunt. 1823: June. Plans to go to Greece to take part in their struggle for independence from the Turks. 3rd August Arrives in Cephalonia. 1824: 5th January. Arrives in Missolonghi. 15th February. Suffers from convulsions. 9th April. Contracts illness after riding in the rain. Written Works: 1806: “Fugitive Pieces”. (printed privately) 1807: “Hours of Idleness”. “Poems on Various Occasions” 1809: “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”. “Imitations and Translations from the Classics, with original poems” 1812:“Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” (Cantos 1-2) 1813: “The Bride of Abydos” 1814: “The Corsair”. “Ode to Napoleon”. “Lara” 1815: “Collected Works”. “Hebrew Melodies” 1816: "Monody on the Death of Sherida."“Poems on his Domestic Circumstances”. “The Prisoner of Chillon”.  “The Siege of Corinth” 1817: Childe Harold” (Cantos 3). “Beppo”. “The Lament of Tasso”. “Manfred” 1818: Childe Harold” (Canto 4). 1819: Don Juan” (Part 1-2) 1820: "Marino". "Faliero". 1821: The Two Foscari”. “Cain”. “Sardanapolus”. “Foscari”. “Marino Faliero”. “Don Juan” (Parts 3-5). 1822: “The Vision of Judgement” 1823: “Werner”. “The Age of Bronze”. “Don Juan” (Parts 6-14). “The Island” 1824: Don Juan" (Parts 15-16) (1825): “Correspondence” Marriage: Jan 2nd 1815 to Annabella Milbanke, at Seaham Hall. Places of Interest: CUMBRIA Dove Cottage and Museum, Grasmere, LA22 9SH. (Wordsworth Trust.) NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Newstead Abbey, Newstead Abbey Park, NG15 8G KENT: Roamed the White Cliffs in 1816 before his departure for Greece. LONDON: National Portrait Gallery. Date and Place of Death: 19th April 1824. Missolonghi, Greece of fever. Remains brought back to England by Leicester Stanhope who had joined him in Greece fighting for the cause. Age at Death: 36. Site of Grave: St. Mary Magdalen Church, Hucknall, Torkard, Nottinghamshire