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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [6]
Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont. [ 1 ] Born in Bath , England, she was initially named Alba , meaning "dawn", or "white", by her mother.
Augusta Maria Leigh (née Byron; 26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851) was the only surviving daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron, the poet Lord Byron's father, by his first wife, Amelia, née Darcy (Lady Conyers in her own right and the divorced wife of Francis, Marquis of Carmarthen).
Lovelace was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron and reformer Anne Isabella Milbanke. [2] All her half-siblings, Lord Byron's other children, were born out of wedlock to other women. [3] Lord Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born and left England forever. He died in Greece when she was eight.
Byron's seemingly callous treatment of the child was further vilified when Allegra died there at the age of five, from a fever some scholars identify as typhus and others speculate was a malarial-type fever. Clairmont held Byron entirely responsible for the loss of their daughter and hated him for the rest of her life.
Elizabeth Medora Leigh (15 April 1814 – 28 August 1849) was the third daughter of Augusta Leigh.It is widely speculated that she was fathered by her mother's half-brother Lord Byron; this is supported by comments from his widow, even though her mother's husband, Colonel George Leigh, was her legal father.
Members of the Byron family sat in the English House of Commons and, as Barons Byron in the House of Lords. The most famous member was the Romantic poet George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron, known simply as "Lord Byron".
She married the poet George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron, and separated from him after less than a year, keeping their daughter Ada Lovelace in her custody despite laws at the time giving fathers sole custody of children. [1] Lady Byron's reminiscences, published after her death by Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealed her fears ...