Bryon's family life.

Byron was born in 1788 with a clubfoot. He was the son of captain John Byron, and Catharine Gordon. He spent the beginning of his life in Aberdeen with his mother. He attended school up until he was ten years old when he inherited the title and property of his great uncle in 1798. Then he went off to Dulwich, Harrow, and Cambridge. Where he built up a lot of debt. While he was at college he met his half sister, Augusta Leigh. They were believed to be having a little more then a brother and sister relationship with each other, more along the lines of a lover rather than family member. In 1807 Byron’s first collection of poetry came out “Hours Of Idleness”, it ended up getting bad reviews. In 1808 he came out with “English Bards and Scotch Reviewersin”, which ended up with a little success. The next year Byron became a lord and began to take his grand tour, visiting Spain, Malta, Albania, Greece and the Aegean. It seemed that his traveling gave him inspiration because it’s when he traveled he came out with some amazing poetry. In 1812, he published the first two cantos of “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” he became very adored in London. In 1814, Byron’s “The Corsiar” sold 10,000 copies on the very first day it was published. Later he married a woman named Anne Isabella Milbanke in 1815. They had a daughter named Ada the same year. A year later Byron and Milbanke separated. When rumors started going around about his incest and his debt he decided to leave England for good and never return. He went and lived with Percy Bysshy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Claire Clairmont who ended becoming his mistress. While living there he wrote two cantos of childe Harold and the “Prisoner of Chillon” By the end of summer Byron decided he wanted to finish his travels. He spent two years in Italy. He wrote a poem called “Lament of Tasso” where it was inspired by a place he visited called in Rome. He also wrote his masterpiece of “Don Juan” while in Italy.

When Byron died from a horrible fever he caught. His body was returned to England and was placed in the family vault at Hucknall Torkard.