Lord Byron

 George Gordon Byron (6th Baron Byron FRS, 22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824) Also known as Lord Byron was an English romantic poet and peer. He was among the foremost names of the Romantic movement, and was considered to be among the best of English poets.Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.Byron was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, then travelled extensively throughout Europe to places such as Italy which is where he spent for seven years in Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa following his exiled from England due to lynching threats.[] He also visited Percy Bysshe Shelley, his friend and fellow poet when he was in Italy. Later in his life, Byron was a participant in the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and was killed in an expedition during the war, for which Greeks revere him as a folk hero. [9] He died in 1824, at the age of 36 , from an illness contracted during the First and Second Sieges of Missolonghi.His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, was one of the pioneers in the field of computer programming using her notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. Byron's extramarital children include Allegra Byron, who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh, daughter of his half-sister Augusta Leigh.