Byron

George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, a great English poet, was born in Holles street, London, an. 22, 1788. He was the grandson of Admiral John Byron, only son, Captain John Byron, of the Guards, so notorious for his gallantries and reckle di ipation that he was known as ‘Mad Jack Byron.’ The injudicious indulgence of a fond mother in no way restrained the inclinations of a naturally wayward disposition, and Byron spent an unregulated youth until his eleventh year, when the death of his grand-uncle gave him the title and estates of the family. While a student in Cambridge, he e ayed a collection of poems, “ Hours of Idlene ,” which at best, a clever school-boy’s production, was treated seriously by Brougham, who criticized it over severely in the Edinburgh “ Review.” The ire this roused in Byron led to a manifestation of his real powers as a poet, and his reply to this criticism, ‘“ English Bards” and “ Scotch Reviewers,” recalling with its wit and sarcasm the days of Pope, at once made him a man of mark. After travel abroad, his famous poems appeared in due succe ion, and he lived the life of a man about town in London, until his marriage in 1815 with Mi Millbanke. The truth is not yet known about this unhappy marriage, but within a year they parted, and a judicial separation was arranged.