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Lord Byron, or, more correctly, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824),
was a poet and important figure of the Romantic movement. He was educated in
Aberdeen and afterwards led a somewhat colourful life until he died
from a fever in Greece at age 36. Byron took part in the Greek
struggle for freedom from the Osman empire, and the Greek consider him
a national hero (which figures in view of the fact that he, too,
used to run up prodigious debts in his lifetime).
