Lord Byron is a statue depicting Greece in the form of a woman crowning Byron. The statue is by the French sculptors Henri-Michel Chapu and Alexandre Falguière. Since 2008, the anniversary of Byron's death, 19 April, has been honoured in Greece as "Byron Day". Upon his death, the barony passed to Byron's cousin George Anson Byron, a career naval officer. Byron described his first intense feelings at age eight for his distant cousin, Mary Duff: My mother used always to rally me about this childish amour, and at last, many years after, when I was sixteen, she told me one day, 'O
Lord Byron in popular culture In the CBBC children's television show Horrible Histories and its reboot, Lord Byron was portrayed by Ben Willbond and Richard Atwill, as fat, sweating man who was conscious his appearance and his bizarre choice of animals whom he kept as pets. Byron appears in the twelfth episode of the fourth season of "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" as an ectoplasmic manifestation coming from the mouth of a main character, Billy, where Byron attempts to teach Billy how to be cool using poetry. In the television series "White Collar," Season 3/Episode 12: "Upper West Side Story," actor Matt Bomer