Frederick George Byron are discussed in Bordes, 1992.. Frederick George Byron Frederick George Byron (1764 – 1792), was an English amateur artist and caricaturist, and an uncle of the poet the 6th Lord Byron. Many of his works are unsigned and have frequently been attributed to other artists; in particular some of his works closely resemble those of Thomas Rowlandson. He made numerous plates for William Holland, between 1788-91, see the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Byron exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain in 1791. His large
Lord Byron in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted in Missolonghi. Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in his life for his aristocratic excesses, which included huge debts, numerous love affairs with both men and women, as well as rumours of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister. One