William Byron, 5th Baron Byron in Corsica. The barony was then left to his great nephew, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, who became the 6th Baron Byron when Lord Byron died on 21 May 1798, at the age of seventy-five. Upon his death, it is said that the great number of crickets he kept at Newstead left the estate in swarms. Lord Byron is buried in the Byron vault at Hucknall Torkard in Nottinghamshire. William Byron, 5th Baron Byron William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (5 November 1722 – 19 May 1798), was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great uncle of the poet George
Lord Byron in popular culture Dan Chapman's 2010 vampire novella "The Postmodern Malady of Dr. Peter Hudson" begins at the time of Lord Byron's death and uses biographical information about him in the construction of its title character. It also directly quotes some of his work. John Crowley's book "" (2005) involves the rediscovery of a lost manuscript by Lord Byron, as do Frederic Prokosch's "The Missolonghi Manuscript" (1968), "The Secret Memoir of Lord Byron " by Christopher Nicole (1979) and Robert Nye's "Memoirs of Lord Byron" (1989). "The Black Drama" by Manly Wade Wellman, originally published in "Weird Tales", involves the rediscovery and production