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 and sexual awakening. Stephanie Barron's series of "Jane Austen Mysteries" has Lord Byron a suspect of murder in the 2010 book, "Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron." Byron is one of the main characters in David Liss's 2011 novel "The Twelfth Enchantment." Byron is a character in T. Zachary Cotler's literary novel "Ghost at the Loom" (2014). Byron is a character in Óscar Esquivias's short story "Leche" ("Milk", 2016). In the comic book series The Wicked + The Divine, Byron appears as a reincarnation of the God Lucifer in a special issue set in the 1830s. "The Bad Lord