John Byron ( born John Byron , 1756-1791) - an officer in the British army, father of the poet Lord Byron .
| John Byron | |
|---|---|
| English John byron | |
| Nickname | Mad Jack |
| Date of Birth | February 7, 1756 |
| Date of death | August 2, 1791 (35 years old) |
| Place of death | Valenciennes , France |
| Affiliation |  Great Britain |
| Type of army | British army |
| Rank | captain |
Biography
John Byron was the son of Vice Admiral John Byron and Sophia Trevanion [1] and grandson of . He graduated from and was promoted to captain in the Coldstream Guards, the oldest regiment of the British Army. [2] In the army, D. Byron was nicknamed "Mad Jack."
In 1778, D. Byron fled from England to Europe with , daughter of Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness. After Amelia received a divorce from [3] , John Byron and Amelia married on June 1, 1779 in London. In marriage, they had a daughter, Augustus .
Amelia Osbourne died in 1784. After her death, in 1785, Captain Byron married a second time, according to calculations, to Catherine Gordon (d. 1811), the only heiress of the rich George Gordon, Esq . She came from the famous Scottish clan of the Gordons , in whose veins the blood of the Scottish kings flowed (along the lines of Annabella Stewart). In this marriage they had a son, George , who at the beginning of his life inherited the title of Baron Byron , becoming the 6th Baron Byron [4] . In order to claim the property of his wife in Scotland, John Byron took the surname Gordon [5] . After John squandered most of his wife’s fortune, he left her. Katherine and little George settled in Aberdeen , Scotland, where they lived on a meager income.
John Byron died in 1791 at the age of 35, in Valenciennes . Subsequently, Lord Byron told his friends that his father committed suicide by cutting his throat.
Notes
- ↑ "Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: A Catalog ..."
- ↑ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage , vol. 1 (107th, 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Genealogical Books, p. 630 .
- ↑ Jeremy Black, “The British and the Grand Tour” (1985), p. 113.
- ↑ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage , vol. 1 (107th, 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Genealogical Books .
- ↑ Eisler, Benita. “Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame” (Knopf, 1999), pp. 10-11.