Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Residence of Zachary Taylor, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 574 LORD LORD BYRON. RIGHT HON. GEORGE GORDON BYRON, grandson of Admiral Byron (whocommanded in the West Indies during the French war of 1755-63, and diedin 1768), born January 22, 1788, was the sixth in descent from his ancestor,Sir John Byron, who received the estate of Ne
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Residence of Zachary Taylor, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 574 LORD LORD BYRON. RIGHT HON. GEORGE GORDON BYRON, grandson of Admiral Byron (whocommanded in the West Indies during the French war of 1755-63, and diedin 1768), born January 22, 1788, was the sixth in descent from his ancestor,Sir John Byron, who received the estate of Newstead, in Lancaster county,England, as a grant from King Henry VIII. The notoriously licentious con-duct of his father, Captain Byron, commonly called mad Jack Byron, oneof the handsomest men of his time, who had deserted his wife and squanderedher fortune, made him an exile from England. He fled to France, to avoidhis creditors, and died at Valenciennes in 1791, leaving his widow and sonalmost destitute. Previous to his elopement and marriage with Byron 9mother (then Miss Gordon), he had seduced the beautiful duchess of Carnar-then; and, though he was compelled afterward to marry her, he squanderedher fortune, and treated her with such brutality, that she soon died of abroken heart. Lord Byron very wittily remarked of his
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