Early life of Lord Byron Early life of Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, better known as the poet Lord Byron, was born 22 January 1788 in Holles Street, London, England, and raised by his mother in Aberdeen, Scotland. His life was complicated by his father, who died deep in debt when he was a child. He was able to work his way through school, and his life advanced after he inherited both his great-uncle's title in 1798 and the Newstead Abbey estate. Byron was the son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and his second wife, the former Catherine Gordon,
Lord Byron in popular culture Byron "(1949) starred Dennis Price as the poet in a sanitised biopic of his life. Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley are portrayed in Roger Corman's final film "Frankenstein Unbound", where the time traveller Dr. Buchanan (played by John Hurt) meets them as well as Victor von Frankenstein (played by Raúl Juliá). The brief prologue to "Bride of Frankenstein" includes Gavin Gordon as Byron, begging Mary Shelley to tell the rest of her Frankenstein story. The events featuring the Shelleys' and Byron's relationship at the house beside Lake Geneva in 1816 have been fictionalised in film at least three times. Byron's