George Gordon, Lord Byron : facts.
April 14, 2008
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- On January 22, 1788 George Noel Gordon was born with a clubfoot.
- Attended the grammar school in Aberdeen, Scotland.
- For the most part, George’s father was absent from his life.
- “He was extremely sensitive of his lameness; its effect upon his character was obvious enough . It was rumored that his nurse, May Gray, made physical advances to him when he was only nine. This experience and his idealized love for his distant cousins Mary Duff and Margaret Parker shaped his paradoxical attitudes toward women.”
- At the age of 10, he inherited the title of his great uncle after his death, Lord Bryon.
- In 1806 George privately prints his first volume of poems, Fugitive Pieces.
- In January 2, 1815 Byron marries Annabella Milbanke. On Decemember 10th, their daughter Augusta Ada is born.
- In 1816 the couple divorce.
- Byron has an afair with Claire Clairmont during the summer of 1816 and she gives birth to his daughter Allegra on January 12th.
- He is also claimed to have another daughter named Elizabeth Medora.
- In 1824 Lord Byron “catches a chill in the rain” and dies less than a month later on April 19th.
