6th Baron Byron George Gordon Byron - British poet, born 22nd January 1788, London, died 19 April 1824, Greece. The most popular person in Regency London, he wrote much poetry and carried on illicit affairs, most notably with Lady Caroline Lamb. His greatest love and the cause of his eventual downfall was his half-sister, Augusta, with whom he had a child. He was a friend of the poet Percy Bysshe Shellley.