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 George Gordon Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a leading figure in Romanticism and is critically regarded as one of the greatest British poets of all time. His most famous works include She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So we’ll go no more a roving.
George Gordon Byron, also known as 6th Baron Byron and later as George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, or more commonly simply as Lord Byron, was a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary Shelley, and at one point John William Polidori was his personal physician.
Lord Byron’s lifestyle received nearly as much attention from the British public as his works as he created huge debts and had numerous love affairs (including Lady Caroline Lamb and Jane Elizabeth Scott “Lady Oxford”) before permanently settling in Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
Lady Caroline Lamb once described Byron as “mad, bad and dangerous to know.”
In 1824 Lord Byron fell ill with a violent cold that was aggravated by therapeutic bleeding; it is suspected that the treatment, together with the use of unsterilised medical equipment, may have led to Byron developing sepsis, which killed him on the 19th of April. [edit]
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