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Formally known as, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron. After a childhood in poverty his entitlement at age ten afforded him education at Harrow and Cambridge. Byron was a strong advocate of social reform in the House of Lords, and co-writer of radical political journals. His love life was a frequent source of scandal in England. After traveling through Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East, he settled in Italy where he wrote much of the verse that made him the most famous of the English Romantic writers. He became a close friend of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein). |