Lord Byron

 George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 19 April 1824) popularly referred to as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was among the leading people of the Romantic movement,and has been considered to be among the best of English poets.Among his most famous works are his lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his more lyrical lyrics are in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.Byron was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, later travelling extensively across Europe to countries like Italy which is where he spent for seven years in Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa following his exiled from England due to threats of lynching.The lynching threat was a major factor in his departure. He visited Percy Bysshe Shelley, his poet friend, while he was in Italy. Later on, Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and was killed leading a campaign during that conflict, and for that Greeks consider him a folk hero. His death occurred in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted after the First and Second Sieges of Missolonghi.His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, was a founding figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. Byron had two extramarital children: Allegra Byron who died in the midst of childhood, and Elizabeth Medora Leigh (daughter of Augusta Leigh).