Walter Scott. Lord Byron. He travelled all over Europe especially in Italy where he lived for seven years and then joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero.[1] He died one year later at age 36 from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi in Greece.
Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses, including huge debts, numerous love affairs with both sexes, rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister, and self-imposed exile.[2] Early life[edit] Byron's paternal grandparents were Vice-Admiral the Hon. Royal Deeside, Scotland : Ballater and the poet Lord Byron. Fans bombarded him with letters.
Groupies clustered at his home. His private life was tempestuous enough to keep a whole team of gossip columnists in business. He was rich, handsome, moody and passionate, a rebel with many causes. George Gordon, Lord Byron. George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) Arthur Conan Doyle. Writers.