Lady Caroline Lamb called her lover, the poet George Gordon — the Sixth Baron Byron — “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” Now the aristocrat of centuries past is the center of an exhibit, ... The ...

Anthony Lane writes on Lord Byron, who died two hundred years ago this April, ... in 1788, with a plainer name: George Gordon Byron. The baby’s mother was Catherine Gordon, a Scottish heiress, ...

Young voyager: the unsentimental George Sanders portrait, 1807-08. Byron commissioned this portrait, for a fee of 250 guineas, from the Scottish portraitist and miniaturist George Sanders, as a ...

As Lord Byron takes centre stage in the West End, Boyd Tonkin explains how an outspoken champion of the poor became a cultural superstar. Boyd Tonkin Thursday 16 February 2012 01:00 GMT ...

It is near where Lord Byron lived in Newstead Abbey. George Gordon, the sixth Baron Byron, died 200 years ago on April 19 in Greece, fighting for Greek independence against the Ottoman Empire, ...

Most probably, Byron would be delighted that we are still talking about him and what a difficult man he was. Sadly, the letter can only tease at what was in the memoirs – though it seems to confirm – ...

Byron was born in 1788 with a slightly deformed foot, about which he remained sensitive his whole life. His birth name was George Gordon, but following the deaths of two relatives, he suddenly ...

On April 19, 2024, mournful Greece will commemorate the bicentennial of the death of her dazzling adopted son, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), whose personal involvement in the Greek ...

Byronic art: An 1817 bust of Lord Byron (right) by Bertel Thorvaldsen (Royal Collection) and a detail from JMW Turner's Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (Tate Britain). When Turner exhibited the ...

A programme of public events celebrating the life of poet Lord Byron will take place in Nottingham this summer to mark 200 years since his death. Born George Gordon Noel, Byron was a famous ...