He joined the cause in Greece, training troops in the town of Missolonghi, where he died of malaria just after his 36th birthdayġ875 D.W. Byron, always an avid supporter of liberal causes and national independence, supported the Greek war for independence. In 1819, he began an affair with the Countess Teresa Guiccioli, the young wife of an elderly count, and the two remained attached for many years. Byron moved to Venice that year and entered a period of wild debauchery. She bore Byron's daughter Allegra in January 1817. He settled in Geneva, near Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and became intimately involved with Mary's half-sister, Claire Clairmont. He was ostracised by polite society and forced to flee England in 1816. Byron and his wife separated as scandal broke out over Byron's suspected incestuous relationship with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. Ada proved to be a mathematical prodigy and is considered by some to be the first computer programmer, thanks to her work on Charles Babbage's computing machine. In 1815, he married Anne Isabella Milbanke, and the couple had a daughter, Ada, the following year. His first published volume of poetry was savaged by critics, especially in Scotland, and his second published work attacked the English literary establishment. He attended Harrow, then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he ran up enormous debts and wrote poetry. At age 10, he inherited his great uncle's title. Afflicted with a clubfoot, Byron endured a painful childhood.
1561 Sir Francis Bacon - British statesman, lawyer, philosopher, writer (The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, The New Atlantis)ġ775 André Ampère - French physicist who experimented with magnets, and after whom the electrical unit amp is namedġ788 George Gordon, Lord Byron - Scottish-born romantic and satirical poet (Manfred, Cain, Don Juan, Hours of Idleness, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Childe Harold) Byron was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and raised in near poverty.
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