Lord Byron (umpire) Lord Byron (umpire) William Jeremiah "Lord" Byron (September 18, 1872 - December 27, 1955) was a Major League Baseball umpire. Byron began umpiring in the Michigan State League in . He would then work in the South Atlantic League from to . From to , Byron umpired games for the Virginia League, Eastern League, Southern League, and the International League. Byron made his major league umpiring debut on April 10, for the National League. He would work in the NL from until , umpiring 1,012 games and the 1914 World Series with Bill Dinneen, Bill Klem, and George Hildebrand. He
Lord Byron released volume by volume through his regular publishing house. By 1822, cautious acceptance by the public had turned to outrage, and Byron's publisher refused to continue to publish the works. In Canto III of "Don Juan", Byron expresses his detestation for poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In letters to Francis Hodgson, Byron referred to Wordsworth as "Turdsworth". Byron was a bitter opponent of Lord Elgin's removal of the Parthenon marbles from Greece, and "reacted with fury" when Elgin's agent gave him a tour of the Parthenon, during which he saw the spaces left by the missing