Lord Byron.

The doctors attending Byron on his deathbed attempted to cure him with leeches and castor oil. He lapsed into a stupor, regained consciousness briefly to say Now I shall go to sleep. Good night., and died within twenty-four hours.

When his mother-in-law died, her will required beneficiaries to take the family name Noel. Byron added it to his, becoming George Gordon Noel Byron in 1822.

Augusta Ada Byron was born on 10 December 1815 to Byron and his wife Annabella. On 15 January 1816, Annabella left Byron, taking Augusta with her. On 21 April 1816 Byron signed the Deed of Separation and left England for good a few days later. He never saw either again.

Christened after his maternal grandfather George Gordon, 12th Laird of Ghight, a descendant of James I. After his suicide in 1779, Byron’s mother had to sell her land and title to pay his debts. Biographers believe the combination of the suicide, the forced sale of her legacy, and the loss of her fortune, thanks to Byron’s father, were the factors behind Catherine’s schizophrenic upbringing of her son.

Became the 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale upon the death of his great-uncle on 21 May 1798, and inherited Newstead Abbey, the family’s ancestral home given to John Byron by Henry VIII in 1540. In 1818, Byron sold it to schoolboy friend Thomas Wildman for £94,500 to pay his debts. Newstead Abbey remained in private hands until its last owner, philanthropist Sir Julien Cahnit, presented it to Nottingham Corporation in 1931.

At her request, Byron’s daughter Ada was buried next to him at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham. Ada never met Byron; her mother left him when Ada was a month old. In 1833, she met Charles Babbage, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and inventor of the Difference Engine. During a nine-month period in 1842-1843, she translated for him Italian mathematician Louis Menebrea’s memoir on Babbage’s Analytical Engine. With the article, she appended a set of Notes which specified in complete detail a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the Engine, recognized by historians as the world’s first computer program. On 10 December 1980, the U.S. Defense Department approved the reference manual for their new computer programming language, Ada.

Upon his death, the Barony was passed to a cousin, George Anson Byron, who lived from 1789 to 1868, a career military officer and Byron’s polar opposite in temperament and lifestyle. The 13th Baron Byron of Rochdale, Robert James Byron, born 5 April 1950, is an attorney and lives in London, England.

Portrayed by, among others: Richard Chamberlain, Jonny Lee Miller, Jason Patric, Hugh Grant, and Joe McFadden.

Made his first speech in the House of Lords.

Addressed as The Right Honourable Lord Byron by strangers and as Byron, the title not the name, by friends. No one ever called him George after he became Byron, not even his mother.

Said to have had a 10 pound brain.

Upon his death, Byron’s heart was removed and buried in Missolonghi, Greece. His remains were sent to England and, refused burial in Westminster Abbey, placed in the vault of his ancestors near Newstead. In 1969, a memorial to Byron was placed on the floor of the Abbey.