Baron Byron, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1643 for John Byron, a Cavalier general and former Member of Parliament. The most famous holder was the poet George Gordon Byron, the sixth holder of the title. The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...
Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th BaronByron (1788-1824), English poet, who was one of the most important and versatile writers of the romantic movement (see Romanticism).
BaronByron, was born in London on January 22, 1788, and educated at Harrow School and the University of Cambridge.
In Geneva, Byron wrote the third canto of Childe Harold and the narrative poem The Prisoner of Chillon (1816).
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