Lord Byron is a statue depicting Greece in the form of a woman crowning Byron. The statue is by the French sculptors Henri-Michel Chapu and Alexandre Falguière. Since 2008, the anniversary of Byron's death, 19 April, has been honoured in Greece as "Byron Day". Upon his death, the barony passed to Byron's cousin George Anson Byron, a career naval officer. Byron described his first intense feelings at age eight for his distant cousin, Mary Duff: My mother used always to rally me about this childish amour, and at last, many years after, when I was sixteen, she told me one day, 'O
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