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	Lord George Gordon
		George Gordon was born on Upper Grosvenor Street in London on December 26, 1751, the sixth son of the Duke of Gordon.
		Gordon came to his aid by publishing a defense of the Count and an attack on the Queen and her ambassador.
		Spiced with Gordon's hatred for the abuses of the privileged class and with devotion to his friend, it was interpreted as a libel against the Queen of France and her ambassador.
	www.jewishmag.com /82mag/lordgordon/lordgordon.htm (3468 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - GORDON, LORD GEORGE: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		English agitator and convert to Judaism; born in London on Dec. 26, 1751; died in 1793; son of the third Duke of Gordon.
		In 1778 Gordon at the head of a disorderly mob presented a bill for the repeal of the act by which the Catholic disabilities had been removed, and, a riot ensuing, Gordon was sent to the Tower, but was acquitted.
		In June, 1787, Gordon was convicted of a libel upon British justice; and, retiring to Birmingham, he lived quietly in the house of a Jew, wearing a long beard and adopting Jewish customs.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=368&letter=G&search=judaism (326 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - George Gordon Lord Byron (1788)
		George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron (1788-1824), English poet, was born in London at 16 Holles Street, Cavendish Square, on the 22nd of January 1788.
		On her way [to Scotland, Catherine] gave birth to a son, christened George Gordon after his maternal grandfather, who was descended from Sir William Gordon of Gight, grandson of James I. of Scotland.
		On the 27th of February 1812 he made his first speech in the House of Lords on a bill which made the wilful destruction of certain newly invented stocking-frames a capital offence, speaking in defence of the riotous "hands" who feared that their numbers would be diminished by improved machinery.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=200 (7961 words)

	San Francisco History - 'Lord' George Gordon and South Park
		The first sugar refinery here was built by Gordon, and it was a never-realized part of his plan to use some of the many idle craft in the bay as a line of traders to Honolulu, the South seas and the west coast as far as Valparaiso.
		Gordon was in Philadelphia when the first copies of Sam Brannan’s California Star extra announcing the immensity of the gold discoveries on the Sacramento, which had been carried overland, arrived in the East.
		Gordon was to be president of the association and was to receive $160 from each member.
	www.sfgenealogy.com /sf/history/hgsto29.htm (1666 words)

	George Gordon, Lord Byron
		He passed the next ten years in straitened circumstances, sensitive to the clubfoot with which he had been born, left with a mother who displaced resentment against her absconded husband onto him, and tended by a Calvinist nurse whom he later said had early awakened his sexuality.
		He asked his mother "whether she perceived any difference in him since he had been made a lord, as he perceived none himself," but the difference shaped the poet.
		In February 1812 he made his first speech in the House of Lords, denouncing the death penalty proposed for weavers who had smashed the machines they blamed for their loss of work.
	www.publicappeal.org /library/dps/byron/info/Byron_ctxt.htm (1527 words)

	TheCriticalPoet - Featured Poet - Lord Byron
		The poet George Gordon, known as Lord Byron (1788-1824), was one of the Romantic movement's most important and versatile writers.
		Lord Byron adopted the name Noel as his third given name in 1822, in order to receive an inheritance from his mother-in-law.
		Lord Byron: a comprehensive study of his life and work.
	thecriticalpoet.tripod.com /byron.htm (1059 words)

	Gordon Lord George - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gordon Lord George - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Gordon, Lord George (1751-1793), British religious agitator, born in London, and educated at Eton College.
		Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), known as Lord Byron, English poet, who was one of the most important and versatile writers of...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Gordon_Lord_George.html (110 words)

	Shadow Poetry -- Resources -- Famous Poets -- Lord Byron
		English poet (George Gordon), was born in London at 16 Holles Street, Cavendish Square, on the 22nd of January 1788.
		Romantic poet and satirist, who also was famous in his lifetime for his love affairs, and who created the concept of the 'Byronic hero' - a defiant, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable in his past.
		George Gordon, lord Byron, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, ed.
	www.shadowpoetry.com /resources/famous/byron/lord.html (519 words)

	Neurotic Poets: Lord Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He inherited the title of Lord Byron at the age of ten, giving him a rank in society, and a bit of wealth to go along with it.
		Lord B.'s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it.
		On April 9 he was caught in the rain while out riding and became ill. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron, died of fever on April 19, 1824 at the age of thirty-six.
	www.neuroticpoets.com /byron (1194 words)

	Lord Byron
		George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon of Gight, a self-indulgent, somewhat hysterical woman, who was his second wife.
		According to some sources, Byron was also seduced by the lord who rented his mansion before he inherited it.
		He became an adored character of London society, he spoke in the House of Lords effectively on liberal themes, and had a hectic love-affair with Lady Caroline Lamb.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /byron.htm (1357 words)

	George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) : short biography
		George Gordon, Lord Byron was born at Holles Street in London, the son of a Guards Officer, Captain John Byron.
		Abandoned by her husband, his mother, Catherine Gordon, took him in 1790 (2) to Aberdeen, where they lived in considerable poverty, and where Byron attended the local school, learning early how to deal with the taunts of his fellow schoolboys concerning his physical deformity, a club foot.
		In 1798 (10) he inherited the estates of his great uncle, Lord Byron, and moved with his mother first to the ruinous Newstead Abbey, then to nearby Nottingham.
	www.adnax.com /biogs/lb.htm (1002 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Lord George Gordon Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lord George Gordon Byron, author of "Don Juan," died April 19, 1824 in Missolonghi, Greece.
		At the age of ten he inherited Newstead Abbey, and the title of lord from his great-uncle William, the fifth Baron Byron.
		He took his seat in the House of Lords in 1809, then toured the mainland with his good friends John Hobhouse and William Fletcher.
	www.obituary.com /byrongg.html (724 words)

	Lord George Gordon
		Gordon, Lord George, 1751–93, English agitator, whose activities resulted in the tragic Gordon riots of 1780 in London.
		Some 21 rioters were executed, but Gordon was acquitted through the efforts of his lawyer, Thomas Erskine.
		Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron - Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron, 1788–1824, English poet and satirist.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0821304.html (148 words)

	Overview of Lord George Gordon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born in London, the third son of Cosmo George, 3rd Duke of Gordon and god-son of King George II.
		The house of the Lord Chief Justice was attacked and the army called onto the streets.
		Gordon was arrested and confined to the Tower of London.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1476.html (346 words)

	Lord George Gordon Byron
		George Gordon Byron was the son of Captain John Byron by his marriage to the Scottish Catherine Gordon of Gight.
		He was born with a club foot of which he was very self-conscious and educated in Aberdeen, where his family had moved to escape their debts, and at Harrow and Cambridge.
		He took up his seat in the House of Lords in 1808 and then left to travel in Europe, at which time he began writing his immensely popular poem Childe Harolde, returning to a political role again in 1813 when he spoke on liberal themes in the House.
	www.netpoets.com /classic/biographies/011000.htm (348 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: George Gordon, Lord Byron
		George Gordon, sixth baron Byron, was born on 27th January 1788 at 16 Holles Street, London.
		In 1794 George Gordon, on the death of the fifth Lord Byron’s grandson, became heir to the barony to which he succeeded in May 1798 and was brought back to England.
		He was to speak again in favour of Catholic Emancipation and on the issue of parliamentary reform and, at this time his major ambition was to make a career for himself as a politician or as a man of action.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=683 (636 words)

	The Newgate Calendar - LORD GEORGE GORDON
		Lord George Gordon, the leader and instigator of these riots, was subsequently tried in the Court of King's Bench, but escaped conviction.
		George Staples, for being concerned in the riot in Moorfields, and assisting to pull down the Roman Catholic chapel there, and the house of James Malo.
		George Staples and Jonathan Stacy, also hanged in Moorfields, for being concerned in the riot, and burning of houses there.
	www.exclassics.com /newgate/ng358.htm (1733 words)

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		Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 - 1824)
		eorge Gordon Noel, Lord Byron was an english poet, one of the most important of his time and the most famous and most
		Coming from aristocratic family, he was very well educated and showed his brilliant talent in a young age.
	users.otenet.gr /~mictop/e_byron.htm (300 words)

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		Lord Byron & The Romantic Age - Literary resource takes a look at the life and work of Byron and his peers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Claire Claremont.
		Lord George Gordon Byron - Biography & Works - Find a brief biography and a list of his famous poems.
		The Literature Network - Lord George Gordon Byron - Resource discusses Byron's fame that was as much for his personality cult as it was for his poetry.
	botw.org /top/Arts/Literature/Authors/Byron,_Lord_George_Gordon (330 words)

	Lord George Gordon Byron - Biography and Works
		Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was as famous in his lifetime for his personality cult as for his poetry.
		George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon.
		My mother was recently given a book of poems by Lord Byron from a friend who's wife had passed away and the friend no longer wanted the book.
	www.online-literature.com /byron (1443 words)

	George Gordon, Lord Byron
		hese pages are devoted to the study of the life, letters, and poetic works of George Gordon Byron, the most prolific and controversial of the great English Romantic poets.
		Additional letters are found in Lord Byron's Correspondence, edited by John Murray, 2 vols.
		The history of the letter is as follows: in 1826 Galignani published an edition of the Works of Lord Byron.
	engphil.astate.edu /gallery/byron.html (854 words)

	George Gordon Lord Byron Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leslie A. Marchand, Byron: A Biography, 3 vols., 1957; abridged and revised in one volume as Byron: A Portrait, 1970.
		Robert F. Gleckner, ed., Critical Essays on Lord Byron, 1991.
		George M. Ridenour, The Style of Don Juan, 1960.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/damrosch_awl/chapter5/medialib/ByronBiblio.html (281 words)

	George Gordon, Lord Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) was born on 22 January 1788.
		His mother Catherine came from the lawless line of Scottish Gordons, and his father, John Byron, of even worse reputation, had run through his wife's fortune and was hiding in France.
		Good listings of Byron's poetry are to be found at Selected Poetry, Representative Poetry Online, Bartleby and photoaspects, and of Byron resources at literaryhistory.com, Byronomia, Byron, and Internet Resources.
	www.poetry-portal.com /poets40.html (897 words)

	Amazon.com: George Gordon, Lord Byron (Bloom's Modern Critical Views): Books: Harold Bloom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lord Byron has been called a vital embodiment of postRenaissance poetry.
		This title, George Gordon, Lord Byron, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of George Gordon, Lord Byron through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics.
		In addition, this title features a short biography on George Gordon, Lord Byron, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0877546835?v=glance (477 words)

	Poetry: George Gordon, Lord Byron
		This site contains a biographical time line of Lord Byron's life, the texts of many poems, and a list of related links.
		Among his scandalous affairs, the one he was rumored to have had with his half-sister forced him into European exile in 1816.
		His political life was equally flamboyant: he began his career in the House of Lords with a speech defending the working classes and he met his death in Greece as the result of a fever he contracted while fighting for Greek independence.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/gordon.htm (305 words)

	Selected Poetry of George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lord Byron - poetical works on-line, bibliography and a chronology of the poet's life.
		Lord Byron WebRing - formed in the hopes of joining together those pages containing information about the life and poetry of Lord Byron.
		Selected Poetry of George Gordon, Lord Byron - from the University of Toronto.
	www.anselm.edu /homepage/dbanach/byron.htm (146 words)

	BARON // The Lord Byron Fanlisting { Immortal Eyes \|\| Version the First } (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Welcome to Baron, the approved and recognized fanlisting for author-poet Lord George Gordon Byron.
		The featured portrait of Lord Byron in Albanian dress was painted at around 1835 by Thomas Phillips.
		Verses from this work are incorporated into the layout and appear behind the showcase image of the author.
	www.ametsuchi.com /baron (172 words)

	Lord Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron (the sixth Baron Byron, if you're counting), was nothing if not the prototype of the conflicted Romantic hero.
		In that same year, in the midst of one of his first controversies, he took his seat in the House of Lords.
		The top graphic is from a painting of Lord Byron in native Albanian garb.
	www.walrus.com /~gibralto/acorn/germ/GGByron.html (1036 words)

	George Gordon, Lord Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Byron was the son of Captain John Byron, who died when he was a child, and a Scotswoman, Catherine Gordon of Gight.
		He was born with a club foot, a disability which is believed to have had an immense impact on his life and writings.
		Despite frequent critical attacks, Byron's poetry was immensely popular in England, on the continent, and in North America.
	www.uoguelph.ca /englit/victorian/INTRO/byron.html (340 words)

	George Gordon, Lord Byron
		1788 as the son of Captain John ("Mad Jack") Byron and his second wife, the former Catherine Gordon, George Gordon Byron might have seemed destined for the urbane existence for which he later made himself famous.
		During his first years in England, Byron, up to this point comparatively well educated in the enlightened Scottish tradition at the Aberdeen Grammar School, was left to the devices of a tutor.
		His body was returned to England and, refused burial in Westminster Abbey on account of the heretical tendencies of his writing, he was interred at Newstead Abbey in July.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Byron/bio.html (883 words)

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