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 novels "The Stress of Her Regard" (1989) and "The Anubis Gates" (1983), Walter Jon Williams's fantasy novella "Wall, Stone Craft" (1994). Byron is resurrected as a computer program in Amanda Prantera's 1987 novel "Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years After His Lordship's Death". Byron is portrayed as an immortal in the book, "Divine Fire", by Melanie Jackson. In the comic thriller, "Edward Trencom's Nose" by Giles Milton, several of Edward's ancestors are poisoned, along with Byron. In the novel "The History of Lucy's Love Life in Ten and a Half Chapters", Lucy Lyons uses a time machine to