William Byron, 5th Baron Byron in Corsica. The barony was then left to his great nephew, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, who became the 6th Baron Byron when Lord Byron died on 21 May 1798, at the age of seventy-five. Upon his death, it is said that the great number of crickets he kept at Newstead left the estate in swarms. Lord Byron is buried in the Byron vault at Hucknall Torkard in Nottinghamshire. William Byron, 5th Baron Byron William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (5 November 1722 – 19 May 1798), was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great uncle of the poet George
Lord Byron in popular culture with Jeremiah Sullivan as Byron and Marjorie Lerstrom as his daughter Ada, Countess Lovelace. The play was commissioned and directed by Keith Fowler. Lord Byron in popular culture English writer Lord Byron has been mentioned in numerous media. A few examples of his appearances in literature, film, music, television and theatre are listed below. Byron first appeared as a thinly disguised character in "Glenarvon", by his former lover Lady Caroline Lamb, published in 1816. (It was her summary of him, "mad, bad, and dangerous to know", that is perhaps still the most quoted.) The Spanish poet Gaspar Núñez de Arce