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 ...

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 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 ...