Lord Byron in popular culture from characterisations of Byron. The image of a vampire portrayed as an aristocrat was created by John William Polidori in "The Vampyre", during the summer of 1816 which he spent in the company of Byron. The titled Count Dracula is a reprise of this character. Tom Holland, in his 1995 novel "The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron", romantically describes how Lord Byron became a vampire during his first visit to Greece — a fictional transformation that explains much of his subsequent behaviour towards family and friends, and finds support in quotes from Byron poems
Lord Byron in excess, leading to the bill being ten times higher than what Byron wanted. Byron wrote about his right-hand man: "Gamba-who is anything but "lucky"-had something to do with it-and as usual-the moment he had-matters went wrong". To help raise money for the revolution, Byron sold his estate Rochdale Manor in England, which raised some £11,250 pound sterling, which led Byron to estimate that he now had some £20,000 pounds at his disposal, all of which he planned to spend on the Greek cause. In today's money Byron would have been a millionaire many times over, and the news that