George Gordon Byron

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English: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824), commonly known as Lord Byron, was the most widely read English language poet of his day.
Français : George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron, poète britannique né le 22 janvier 1788, mort le 19 avril 1824.

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[edit] Portrait gallery

[edit] Lord Byron

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Lord Byron

Lord Byron in Albanian dress, by Thomas Phillips, painted in 1813.

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Joseph-Denis Odevaere: Lord Byron on his Death-bed (1826)

Byron's signature, engraved on a pillar of

[edit] Family

Catherine Gordon, his mother

Father John Byron

Wife Annabella

Daughter Ada Lovelace

Ada

Ada

Illegitimate daughter Allegra

[edit] Lovers

Lady Caroline Lamb
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Augusta Leigh

Elizabeth Medora Leigh

Claire Clairmont, Allegra's mother


[edit] Memorials

Plaque in London

Memorial in Missolonghi

memorial in Athens

Memorial in the park of the Villa Borghese

Stamp from Soviet Union

[edit] Byron abroad

Byron at Missolonghi

[edit] Litterature

Category:Joseph Emanuel Hilscher - Gedichte (contains many translations of his poems to German language)

Poem „Die Schönheit“

[edit] Illustrations of Byron's works

[edit] The Giaour

Eugène Delacroix

[edit] Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

First page to the Dugdale edition

Turner, 1826

[edit] The Prisoner of Chillon

Eugène Delacroix

Franck-Edouard Lossier

[edit] Mazeppa

Géricault

Book illustration

[edit] Manfred

Johann Peter Krafft

Peter Cole, 1833

John Martin, 1837

[edit] Sardanapalus

Delacroix
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