BYRD, WILLIAM

(1543-1623), composer; shared with Tallis the of organist to the Chapel Royal; posed ma es, part-songs, etc., and his work takes high rank lit. of music. A number of his com tions have been pub. in recent times. bi he much of his work still remains in mani at the BYRON ISLAND—(1) (1° 25’S., 17 of the 54’ E.), island, Gilbert group, Oceani suc- (2) (47° 44’ S., 75° 14’ W.), islan the 3rd Patagonia, S. America, but Nov., BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, 6T Arras, LORD (1788-1824), Eng. poet; b. prominent London. He came of an old Derbyshi In family, notorious for its stormy hist or and His great-uncle and predece or in t! Subsetitle (‘the wicked Lord Byron’), was tri and by the peers in 1765 for the murder Service Mr. Chaworth, but found guilty appointed manslaughter only; and his grand fat he Admiral Byron (‘Foul-Weather Jack sailed round the world with Anso American His father was a di olute scamp wi He married (as his second wife) Catheri He Gordon of Gight, a small Scot. heires Magand squandered all her fortune. Aft McClure his father’s death in 1791, Byron liv editor with his mother (a violent, fool i: (1907woman, who made him exceedingly u other happy), chiefly in Aberdeen. He r tO | ceived "his education first at Harro in and then at Trinity Coll., Cambridg Little where he made the acquaintance | poems, Hob house, afterwards Lord Brough to play,1915; and led a very riotous life. About tk Praise, time he fell in love with Mary Chawort poems, the heire of his great-uncle’s victit and was rejected by her—a disappoin products ment that had some bearing on k subsequent life, of In 1807 he published Hours of Idi run ne , which was ‘cut up’ by Brough a develop in the Edinburgh Review. In retaliatic byByron wrote in 1809 his satirical poet of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, ai then set out on his tour through Europ of including in his travels Spain, Portugs tar Greece and the Algean Islands. On k 1856. return he i ued (in 1812) the first ty by-prod cantos of Childe Harold, describing t from travels, and ‘found himself famous For the next few years he was the darlis of London society, contracting nume illumious liaisons with married women (not valuable bly Lady Caroline Lambe, wife of, Loi sweetening Melbourne) and publishing his Orient prod poems, The Giaour, 1813; The Corsa are and Lara, 1814; and The Stege of C smelting rinth, 1816. In Jan. 1815 he marri pavMi Milbanke, an heire ; in Dec. slag, the same year his daughter, Ada, w is a born, and his wife left his house. TT! valuable reasons of this separation are n works. known. Being cast by society, Byr went abroad ‘and settled near Gene Eng. where he met and came under the i post fluence of Shelley, and formed < com intimacy with Mrs. Shelley’s ste madrigals, sister, Claire Clairmont, who becan in the the mother of Allegra Byron. d compos i Geneva he wrote the fine Words worth i:z % - & canto fii. of Childe Harold, The Prisoner of Chillon, and began Manfred. From Geneva he went to Milan, thence to Venice, where he spent two years of ceasele di ipation, and wrote Mazeppa, and the first two cantos of Don Juan, his masterpiece. From his life in Venice he was rescued in 1819 by the Counte Guiccioli, with whom he lived for the next four years at Ravenna, Pisa, and Genoa. During this time he continued Don Juan and wrote his plays, Marino Faliero, 1820; The Two Foscari, and Cain, 1821; and his burlesque of Southey, The Vision of Judgment, 1821. At the instigation of Shelley (whom he met again in Pisa), in 1822 he entered into partnership with Leigh Hunt in editing The Liberal, which was, however, a failure. After Shelley’s death, he raised money for the long hi, where he died of fever (April 19, 1824). Byron’s poetry has lately suffered undue eclipse; his earlier poems are garish and insincere, and his style is always slipshod, but his later poems show not only sympathy with the stormy side of nature, but also great powers of wit and satire. His Don Juan is not only the cleverest satirical poem in English literature, but also one of the most ingenious displays of rhyming in the language.