George Byron, 9th Baron Byron uncle, Captain George Anson Byron, 8th Baron Byron. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, in 1880 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts (BA). In 1899 he was declared bankrupt. He held rank of Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Lord Byron died on 30 March 1917, and was succeeded by his younger brother, the Reverend Frederick Ernest Charles Byron, 10th Baron Byron (born 1861). Lord Byron married Fanny Lucy Radmall in 1901; they had no children. George Byron, 9th Baron Byron Lieutenant George Frederick William Byron, 9th Baron Byron (27 December 1855 – 30 March
Lord Byron kalos", a great and good man". Alfred Tennyson would later recall the shocked reaction in Britain when word was received of Byron's death. The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero. The national poet of Greece, Dionysios Solomos, wrote a poem about the unexpected loss, named "To the Death of Lord Byron". Βύρων, the Greek form of "Byron", continues in popularity as a masculine name in Greece, and a town near Athens is called Vyronas in his honour. Byron's body was embalmed, but the Greeks wanted some part of their hero to stay with them. According to