Brief Biography of Lord Byron

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  • Lord Byron is most famous for being a romantic poet. He is also well known for having a rather strange menagerie which included a bear when he was at university and also a badger, crocodile and a Newfoundland named 'Boatswain'! Throughout his life, Byron, born George Gordon Byron on 22nd January 1788, had various mistresses, thus causing him to have various illegitimate children. Although there are probably some we do not know because he never acknowledged them as his own, he did have a daughter by the author Mary Shelley's stepsister Claire Claremont. There is a rumour that Byron's half- sister's daughter- Elizabeth Medora Leigh, was also the daughter of the poet. This wouldn't be surprising because he doesn't exactly have a good reputation when it comes to women! In 1858, Byron married one of his mistresses' cousin: Anne Isabella Milbanke (aka Annabella). The marriage did produce one daughter, the famous mathematician and genius Augusta 'Ada' Lovelace (née Byron). However the marriage was short and unhappy so Annabella left taking their daughter with her. Later, Byron reluctantly signed the Deed of Separation but he still took interest in his legitimate daughter. After the marriage ended, Byron moved to Greece where he passed away in 1824, when Ada was eight years old and he was thirty- six years old.
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