William Byron, 5th Baron Byron 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 Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron who succeeded him . As a result of a number of stories that arose after a duel, and then because of his financial difficulties, he became known as "the Wicked Lord" and "the Devil Byron". Byron was the son of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron and his wife Hon. Frances Berkeley, a descendant of John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. He inherited his title
Lord Byron in popular culture novels "The Stress of Her Regard" (1989) and "The Anubis Gates" (1983), Walter Jon Williams's fantasy novella "Wall, Stone Craft" (1994). Byron is resurrected as a computer program in Amanda Prantera's 1987 novel "Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years After His Lordship's Death". Byron is portrayed as an immortal in the book, "Divine Fire", by Melanie Jackson. In the comic thriller, "Edward Trencom's Nose" by Giles Milton, several of Edward's ancestors are poisoned, along with Byron. In the novel "The History of Lucy's Love Life in Ten and a Half Chapters", Lucy Lyons uses a time machine to