Rags to riches?
Byron goes to Southwell
1788-1799
By Ralph Lloyd-Jones
"so his seems like a ‘rags to riches’ story"
Although the great romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 – 1823) is closely associated with the county, he did not arrive here until the age of ten when he inherited Newstead Abbey, along with his baronetcy, from a great uncle he had never met. Before that he was living in a flat in Aberdeen with his Scottish mother, Catherine Gordon Byron (1765 – 1811), so his seems like a ‘rags to riches’ story.
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