Lord Byron (umpire) Lord Byron (umpire) William Jeremiah "Lord" Byron (September 18, 1872 - December 27, 1955) was a Major League Baseball umpire. Byron began umpiring in the Michigan State League in . He would then work in the South Atlantic League from to . From to , Byron umpired games for the Virginia League, Eastern League, Southern League, and the International League. Byron made his major league umpiring debut on April 10, for the National League. He would work in the NL from until , umpiring 1,012 games and the 1914 World Series with Bill Dinneen, Bill Klem, and George Hildebrand. He
Lord Ruthven (vampire) "The Vampire: A Phantasm", and played the title role during its long run. Alexandre Dumas, père also used the character in an 1852 play. A Lord Ruthven also exists in Tom Holland's novel, "Lord of the Dead". Lord Ruthven is actually Lord Byron. A Lord Ruthven also appeared in the Swedish novel "Vampyren" (1848), the first published work by author and poet Viktor Rydberg; as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that he is inspired by him in name only. This Ruthven is not a supernatural being, but a lunatic believing himself to be a vampire. In "The Count of