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Lord
Byron
Childhood
• born on January 22, 1788 to Captain John "Mad
Jack" Byron (John Byron Gordon of Gight) and
his second wife, the former Catherine Gordon in
a house on 24 Holles Street in London
• Byron's half-sister, Augusta (1/2 that survived)
• originally named Barony of Byron of Rochdale
inorder to gain his mothers estate in Scotland
once the father passed away
• christened, at St Marylebone Parish Church,
"George Gordon Byron" after his maternal
grandfather
• Byron’s Mother had to pay off all his fathers
debts
• attended Aberdeen Grammar School
• born with a club foot
• Harrow, where he remained until July 1805. He
did represent the school during the very first Eton
v Harrow cricket match at Lord's in 1805
• that autumn he attended Trinity College,
Cambridgeautumn made lifelong friendships with
Newstead AbbeyByron's great-uncle, the "wicked" Lord Byron, died on 21 May
1798, the 10-year-old boy became the 6th Baron Byron of
Rochdale and inherited the ancestral home in Nottinghamshire
Life Style• Bi Sexual
• had many mistresses and women
• determend to prove himself
because of the foot and divorced
parents
• extremist
• aristocratic
• had 2 children (1. abandoned as a
child 2. sent away to a lonely death)
• 19th Century Superstar
• threw extremely rowdy parties
• died 36 years old, April 14, 1824 of
a fever while supporting Greek
nationalist
Works• Don Juan
• 'epic carnival’
• Byronic Hero
• highly immoral yet popular
• weaknesses in structure,
characterization, and
philosophy of life
• satire on abuses of the
‘present states of society.’
• Italian ottava rima (eight-line
stanza)
World View
• Deist
• God Created the world and
then let it go
• God is not involved in the world
at all
• Freethinker
Sources
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/byron_lord.shtml
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lord_byron.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usuxB9lOGUA

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Lord Byron

  • 2. Childhood • born on January 22, 1788 to Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron (John Byron Gordon of Gight) and his second wife, the former Catherine Gordon in a house on 24 Holles Street in London • Byron's half-sister, Augusta (1/2 that survived) • originally named Barony of Byron of Rochdale inorder to gain his mothers estate in Scotland once the father passed away • christened, at St Marylebone Parish Church, "George Gordon Byron" after his maternal grandfather • Byron’s Mother had to pay off all his fathers debts • attended Aberdeen Grammar School • born with a club foot • Harrow, where he remained until July 1805. He did represent the school during the very first Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord's in 1805 • that autumn he attended Trinity College, Cambridgeautumn made lifelong friendships with
  • 3. Newstead AbbeyByron's great-uncle, the "wicked" Lord Byron, died on 21 May 1798, the 10-year-old boy became the 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale and inherited the ancestral home in Nottinghamshire
  • 4. Life Style• Bi Sexual • had many mistresses and women • determend to prove himself because of the foot and divorced parents • extremist • aristocratic • had 2 children (1. abandoned as a child 2. sent away to a lonely death) • 19th Century Superstar • threw extremely rowdy parties • died 36 years old, April 14, 1824 of a fever while supporting Greek nationalist
  • 5. Works• Don Juan • 'epic carnival’ • Byronic Hero • highly immoral yet popular • weaknesses in structure, characterization, and philosophy of life • satire on abuses of the ‘present states of society.’ • Italian ottava rima (eight-line stanza)
  • 6. World View • Deist • God Created the world and then let it go • God is not involved in the world at all • Freethinker