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Byron's Life and Works: Early Years
Byron was born in a London boarding house on 22 January 1788. He was
the only child of Captain John Byron by his second wife, the Scottish
heiress Catherine Gordon. His father's ancestors had come to England with
William the Conquerer and his mother descended from James I.
At the age of ten he became the 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, inheriting his title and the Newstead estate from his great-uncle William, the so-called 'Wicked' Lord, whom he had never met. The future poet attended school at Dulwich and Harrow. While an undergraduate at Trinity College in Cambridge, Byron published his first three volumes of poetry: Fugitive Pieces (1806), Poems on Various Occasions (1807) and Hours of Idleness (1807).
Between 1803 and 1808 Byron spent time with his mother Catherine in the Nottinghamshire town of Southwell where she had rented Burgage Manor. He then took his degree in 1808 and moved into Newstead Abbey that autumn. There he spent much of his time preparing his satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers for publication in 1809.
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