Lord Byron is a statue depicting Greece in the form of a woman crowning Byron. The statue is by the French sculptors Henri-Michel Chapu and Alexandre Falguière. Since 2008, the anniversary of Byron's death, 19 April, has been honoured in Greece as "Byron Day". Upon his death, the barony passed to Byron's cousin George Anson Byron, a career naval officer. Byron described his first intense feelings at age eight for his distant cousin, Mary Duff: My mother used always to rally me about this childish amour, and at last, many years after, when I was sixteen, she told me one day, 'O
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