Byron. (Report from Europe).

George Gordon, sixth baron Byron, better known as Lord Byron, managed to squeeze a remarkable amount into his relatively short life. By the time he died of a fever at the age of thirty-six, while fighting for the independence of Greece from Turkey, he had behind him incest, many love affairs, a failed marriage, mental instability, and financial worries. Byron inherited his title at the age of ten, attended Dulwich and Harrow schools and Trinity College at Cambridge University. He published his first collection of poems in 1806 at the age of eighteen. Three years later he took his seat in the House of Lords, and then promptly left for the first of his extended journeys on the Continent.

In 1811 he returned to England and renewed acquaintance with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. Following his love affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, Byron and Leigh became constant companious; she gave birth to a daughter--almost certainly Byron's--in 1814. The following year Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke who also bore a daughter. Byron's debts, his unreasonable behavior, and the supposed incest were too much for his wife, and in 1816 they were formally separated. Byron went into bitter permanent exile in 1816.

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