Portrait of Catherine Gordon, mother of Lord Byron, by Thomas Stewardson. (Photo: Wikipedia) So many misfortunes happened to him in his childhood, that the only good thing he had was having ...

It takes a biography of George Gordon Noel, the Sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824) to remind us of quite how radically the world of 200 years ago differs from our own modest arrangements. To read even a ...

Lord Byron may be regarded as one of England’s finest poets, but did you know he had a pet bear and a penchant for drinking from human skulls? In this episode of You’re Dead to Me, public ...

It adjoins the memorials to Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll and D.H. Lawrence. The white marble stone is inlaid with gold Sienna marble lettering and reads: LORD BYRON Died 19 April 1824 aged 36 at ...

Image courtesy of London Remembers, who plucked up the courage to visit Byron's traffic island. A statue of Lord Byron is to be rescued from its traffic island. "What statue of Lord Byron?" ...

A statue of famed 19th Century poet Lord Byron that has been marooned on a traffic island on Park Lane in central London for decades could be relocated. The Byron Society was awarded more than £ ...