1. George Gordon Byron
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2. Lord Byron Born 22 January 1788 in Dover, Kent, Great Britain
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and later George Gordon Noel
British poet
Leading figure in Romanticism
Politics
Hereditary seat in the House of Lords in 1812

3. Sensitive to criticism Fragile self-esteem
Lame foot
Sensitive to criticism
Fragile self-esteem
Controversial lifestyle and poetry
Often unhappy
Created an unstable world for himself
Portrait of Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips

4. Title at the age of 10
Wealth
Debts
Extravagant lifestyle
Cambridge - Bear in his room
Obsessed with food
Starvation
Wild parties – Skull cup

5. Newstead Abbey – Family home in 1880

6. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812)
Byron – ‘I awoke and found myself famous’
Affairs with women
Half-sister Augusta Leigh
Dramatic poem Manfred
Her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice were like to mine."

7. 1815 Married to Annabella Milbanke Daughter Ada
1816 left England – never to return
Bitter outlook in the poem Darkness
Anne Isabella Milbanke in 1812 by Sir George Hayter
Ada

8. Met Shelley in Geneva
Lifelong relationship
Countess Teresa Guiccioli
Italian nationalism movement

9. Greece – rebellion against Turks Stress
Died of fever on April 19, 1824
36-years-old
Hero to the Greeks
Buried in the family tomb at Hucknall Torkard
Lord Byron in Albanian dress by Thomas Phillips, c 1835

10. Best –known poems
She Walks in Beauty (Song)-
She Walks in Beauty (Poem) -
When We Two Parted (Poem) –

11. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron

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