Baron Byron Baron, killed his cousin and neighbour William Chaworth in a duel on 26 January 1765. He was brought before his peers in the House of Lords but under the statute of Edward VI he was found guilty only of manslaughter and forced to pay a small fine. Byron henceforth became known as "the Wicked Lord" and "the Devil Byron". He was succeeded by his great-nephew, George Gordon Byron, the sixth Baron, the famous Romantic poet. He was the son of John "Mad Jack" Byron, son of Vice-Admiral the Hon. John "Foulweather Jack" Byron, second son of the fourth Baron and
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