Lord Byron additional surname "Gordon", becoming "John Byron Gordon", and he was occasionally styled "John Byron Gordon of Gight." Byron himself used this surname for a time and was registered at school in Aberdeen as "George Byron Gordon." At the age of 10 he inherited the English Barony of Byron of Rochdale, becoming "Lord Byron", and eventually dropped the double surname. Byron's paternal grandparents were Vice-Admiral the Hon. John "Foulweather Jack" Byron, and Sophia Trevanion. Vice Admiral John Byron had circumnavigated the globe and was the younger brother of the 5th Baron Byron, known as "the Wicked Lord". He was christened at
Lord Byron in popular culture and sexual awakening. Stephanie Barron's series of "Jane Austen Mysteries" has Lord Byron a suspect of murder in the 2010 book, "Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron." Byron is one of the main characters in David Liss's 2011 novel "The Twelfth Enchantment." Byron is a character in T. Zachary Cotler's literary novel "Ghost at the Loom" (2014). Byron is a character in Óscar Esquivias's short story "Leche" ("Milk", 2016). In the comic book series The Wicked + The Divine, Byron appears as a reincarnation of the God Lucifer in a special issue set in the 1830s. "The Bad Lord