Lord Byron additional surname "Gordon", becoming "John Byron Gordon", and he was occasionally styled "John Byron Gordon of Gight." Byron himself used this surname for a time and was registered at school in Aberdeen as "George Byron Gordon." At the age of 10 he inherited the English Barony of Byron of Rochdale, becoming "Lord Byron", and eventually dropped the double surname. Byron's paternal grandparents were Vice-Admiral the Hon. John "Foulweather Jack" Byron, and Sophia Trevanion. Vice Admiral John Byron had circumnavigated the globe and was the younger brother of the 5th Baron Byron, known as "the Wicked Lord". He was christened at
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