George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron

:For a list of others who have held the title Lord Byron see Baron Byron

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:For Virgil Thomson's opera, see Lord Byron.

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:For the famous golfer with the nickname "Lord Byron", see Byron Nelson.

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George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22, 1788–April 19, 1824) was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. Among his best-known works are the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. The latter remained incomplete on his death.

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Byron is also father of Ada Lovelace.

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Byron's fame rests not only on his writings, but also on his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, allegations of incest and bisexuality and an eventual death from fever after he travelled to fight on the Greek side in the Greek War of Independence. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."

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