Early life of Lord Byron article) Early life of Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, better known as the poet Lord Byron, was born 22 January 1788 in Holles Street, London, England, and raised by his mother in Aberdeen, Scotland. His life was complicated by his father, who died deep in debt when he was a child. He was able to work his way through school, and his life advanced after he inherited both his great-uncle's title in 1798 and the Newstead Abbey estate. Byron was the son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and his second wife, the former Catherine
Henry James Byron Prince of Wales's Theatre. In 1869, he returned to the stage as an actor and, during the same period, wrote numerous successful plays, including the historic international success, "Our Boys". In his last years, he grew frail from tuberculosis and died at the age of 49. Byron was born in Manchester, England, the son of Henry Byron (1804–1884, second cousin to the poet Lord Byron and descendant of many Lord Byrons), at one time British consul in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Elizabeth Josephine "née" Bradley. He was educated in Essex and then at St. Peter's Collegiate School in Eaton Square, London.