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 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