George Byron, 8th Baron Byron of his father. Lord Byron died on 28 November 1870, and was succeeded by his nephew, George Frederick William Byron, 9th Baron Byron (born 1855). Lord Byron married Lucy Elizabeth Jane Wescomb, daughter of Reverend William Wescomb and Jane Douglas, in 1843. They had no children. George Byron, 8th Baron Byron Captain George Anson Byron, 8th Baron Byron (30 June 1818 – 28 November 1870) was a British nobleman, army officer, peer, politician, and the eighth Baron Byron, as the son of Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron, who was the cousin of Romantic poet and writer George Gordon
Lord Byron in excess, leading to the bill being ten times higher than what Byron wanted. Byron wrote about his right-hand man: "Gamba-who is anything but "lucky"-had something to do with it-and as usual-the moment he had-matters went wrong". To help raise money for the revolution, Byron sold his estate Rochdale Manor in England, which raised some £11,250 pound sterling, which led Byron to estimate that he now had some £20,000 pounds at his disposal, all of which he planned to spend on the Greek cause. In today's money Byron would have been a millionaire many times over, and the news that