History Creator / LordByron

* Lady Caroline's cousin, Anne Isabella Milbanke, whom Byron married. The marriage was not happy, but produced one daughter, Ada Byron. Ada later married the Earl of Lovelace, becoming known as "Ada Lovelace". Anne regarded Lord Byron's brooding Romanticism as a form of insanity, and so raised Ada with a focus on logic and mathematics; as a result, Ada came to be interested in the sciences, and worked with Charles Babbage in his development of mechanical computing machines. When Babbage designed his (never-built) Analytical Engine, it was Ada who recognised the possibility that these machines could be used to manipulate any kind of information, and not simply conduct elaborate mathematical calculations; she also wrote the world's first computer program (which was never run, as it was written for the Analytical Engine). She thus becamethe person after whom the programming language Ada was named in recognition of the oft-overlooked contribution of women to computer science. All at least in part because Lord Byron's wife thought Lord Byron was mad.

* Lady Caroline's cousin, Anne Isabella Milbanke, whom Byron married. The marriage was not happy, but produced one daughter, Ada Lovelace, the first and only computer programmer for about 150 years, after whom the programming language Ada was named.

His women included:
* Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of the future [[UsefulNotes/TheMenOfDowningStreet Prime Minister]] UsefulNotes/ViscountMelbourne. She described him as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"...''before'' their affair even started.

* Lady Caroline's cousin, Anne Isabella Milbanke, whom Byron married. The marriage was not happy, but produced one daughter, Ada Lovelace, one of the earliest computer programmers, after whom the programming language Ada was named.

* Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of the future [[UsefulNotes/TheMenOfDowningStreet Prime Minister]] ViscountMelbourne. She described him as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"...''before'' their affair even started.
* Augusta Leigh, his half-sister. Augusta (who was married) had a third daughter, Medora Leigh, [[BrotherSisterIncest who may (or may not) be Byron's child]].
* Lady Caroline's cousin, Anne Isabella Milbanke, whom Byron married. The marriage was not happy, but produced one daughter, Ada Lovelace, one of the earliest computer programmers, after whom the programming language Ada was named.
* Claire Clairmont, the step-sister of Creator/MaryShelley (the author of ''Frankenstein''). They had a daughter, Allegra, who died at the age of 5.

* Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of the future [[TheMenOfDowningStreet Prime Minister]] ViscountMelbourne. She described him as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"...''before'' their affair even started.

This is an incomplete list. In addition, Byron was [[AnythingThatMoves bisexual]], and had homosexual lovers as a young man. He is a good real life example of an UpperClassWit.

His childhood was fertile ground for what he became. His father, Army Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron, of a junior line of moderately old gentry family[[note]]the male-line ancestors of the 1st Baron Byron--Lord Byron's great-great-great uncle--had been knights at least as far back as his great-great-grandfather in the 15th century.[[/note]] married his mother, Catherine Gordon (heiress to the Scottish estate of Gight, in Aberdeenshire), in 1785. By the time George was born in 1788, "Mad Jack" had squandered most of Catherine's money, and she took her son to Aberdeen to eke out an existence on the remaining crumbs and a small trust fund; "Mad Jack" would die of tuberculosis in 1791. When Byron's great-uncle, the 5th Baron Byron, died childless, George, then 10 years old, inherited the title and the family seat at Newstead Abbey--which was a wreck that his mother preferred to rent out to junior gentry. Not that she spent it well--she alternately spoiled George and spoiled herself, could be very stubborn, and was generally lacking in judgment.

* ''Arcadia'', a play by TomStoppard

!!Tropes from the life and works of Lord Byron:

* BlueBlood: To be a Byronic Hero, it helps to have the leisure to spend your time learning, travelling, brooding, and womanising (and man-ising), and so most of his heroes are, like him, aristocrats. He himself was the 6th Baron Byron, and his ancestors had been landed gentry for several generations before that (the male-line ancestors of the 1st Baron--Lord Byron's great-great-great uncle--had been knights at least as far back as ''his'' great-great-grandfather in the 15th century).

* EagleSquadron: Him in Greece.
* NatureLover: Like most romantics.

!!Tropes from the works of Lord Byron:

* NatureLover: Like most romantics

* BlueBlood: To be a Byronic Hero, it helps to have the leisure to spend your time learning, travelling, brooding, and womanising (and man-ising), and so most of his heroes are, like him, aristocrats. He himself was the 6th Baron Byron, and his ancestors had been landed gentry for several generations before that (the male-line ancestors of the 1st Baron--Lord Byron's great-great-great uncle--had been knights at least as far back as his great-great-grandfather in the 15th century).

* BlueBlood: To be a Byronic Hero, it helps to have the leisure to spend your time learning, travelling, brooding, and womanising (and man-ising), and so most of his heroes are, like him, aristocrats. He himself was the 6th Baron Byron, and his ancestors had been landed gentry for several generations before that (the great-great-grandfather of the 1st Baron had been a knight).

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), was a {{Romantic|ism}} poet, womaniser, and revolutionary. He gave his name to the ByronicHero trope, by [[WriteWhoYouKnow writing about Byronic heroes and being one in real life]].

* Lord Ruthven, the villain protagonist of ''Literature/TheVampyre'' by Lord Byron's doctor John Polydori is said to be [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed modelled on Lord Byron]].

** In RealLife, Lord Byron's ''actual'' doctor wrote a novel called ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre The Vampyre]]'', whose central character is an obvious {{Expy}} of Byron.

'''His women included:'''

!!Has featured in the following works:

* ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'', a novel by Susanna Clarke
* "The Modern Prometheus", an episode of ''HighlanderTheSeries''

* ''TheThrillingAdventuresOfLovelaceAndBabbage'', though only shows up in the first frame of Ada Lovelace's origin story. Still fitting, though, as he is Ada Lovelace's father.

* An AlternateHistory analogue, John Byron III, appears in a flash-forward segment of ''LookToTheWest'' set in 1830.

* TheTwelfthEnchantment has Lord Byron involved in a magical conspiracy.

* ''TheDifferenceEngine,'' a {{Steampunk}} novel by WilliamGibson and Bruce Sterling. In this one, he manages to survive the Greek War of Independence and becomes Prime Minister over a society that depends on the mechanical computers invented by Charles Babbage and the aforementioned Ada Lovelace.

* Claire Clairmont, the step-sister of MaryShelley (the author of ''Frankenstein''). They had a daughter, Allegra, who died at the age of 5.

* The opening to ''BrideOfFrankenstein'', in which he and Percy Shelley are entertained by Mary Shelley's telling of the narrative of the movie

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a {{Romantic|ism}} poet, womaniser, and revolutionary. He gave his name to the ByronicHero trope, by [[WriteWhoYouKnow writing about Byronic heroes and being one in real life]].

His poems include the semi-autobiographical ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' and the long NarrativePoem AlternateCharacterInterpretation ''[[LordByronsDonJuan Don Juan]]''.

* ''The Anubis Gates'', a novel by TimPowers
* ''{{The Stress of Her Regard}}'', a novel by TimPowers