Early life of Lord Byron article) 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
Lord Byron in popular culture visit 1813 and meet her idol, Byron. He appears in a parallel story line in the novel "The Fire" by Katherine Neville. Byron is also a minor character in the ninth novel of L.A. Meyer's Bloody Jack series "The Mark of the Golden Dragon". In the short story "The Writer's Child" by Tad Williams—collected in the anthology "The Sandman: Book of Dreams" edited by Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer—Byron is depicted as reincarnated as a child's teddy bear. Described as "clubfoot" for having one leg shorter than the other, and called separately, "young lord" and simply "Byron", it is not