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
William Byron (MP) with his cousin Juliana Elizabeth Byron, daughter of Admiral John Byron. Byron contested Morpeth at the 1774 general election on the Carlisle interest. He was defeated, but seated as Member of Parliament on petition on 28 January 1775. There is no record of any vote or speech by him in the eighteen months he was in Parliament. Byron as heir was due to inherit the Barony, but he died on 22 June 1776. His son was killed by cannon fire in 1794 while fighting in Corsica and the barony ultimately went to the poet Lord Byron. William Byron (MP) Hon.