Lord Byron

Lord Byron was born in 1788, lame from birth, inherited the title at ten and became famous overnight at twenty-four. His separation and the rumours about his half-sister drove him out of England in 1816; he never returned. He lived in Switzerland and then in Italy, then left to support the Greek insurrection: in November 1823 he lent four thousand pounds to equip the fleet, and died of fever at Missolonghi in April 1824, aged thirty-six, before the attack on Lepanto that he was preparing.

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• PoetryManfredLord Byron · 1817LiteraturePublic domain