Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Byron's Childe Harold, Cantos III and IV: The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems
George gordon byron, sixth Baron Byron of Roch dale, was born in London, January, 22, 1788. His father was the spendthrift Captain John Byron, formerly -oi the guards, and his mother was Catherine Gordon of Gicht, Aberdeen, Scotland. His parents had just re turned from France, where Captain Byron had dissipated most of his wife's fortune of for which he had married her. In April, 1788, Byron was taken by his mother to Aberdeen, Where she lived with him in lodgings in comparative poverty until 1798.
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