Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

male, deceased (1822)
poet, The Revolt of Islam, Romantic poet, To a Skylark, Ozymandias, Adonais…lordbyron
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English...
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore

male, deceased (1852)
The Minstral Boy, Middle Temple, from County Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls…lordbyron
Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 - February 25, 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The...
Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

female, deceased (1894)
Christian hymnwriter, Sonneteers, Victorian poetry, buried at Highgate Cemetery, English women writer, Women poet…lordbyron
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 - December 29, 1894) was an English poet. Her siblings were the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti,...

John Murray

male, deceased (1843)
lordbyron, Scottish, childe harold, marmion, Publisher, Sir Walter Scott…George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
John Murray was a Scottish publisher and member of the famous John Murray publishing house. Murray was the son of the founder, who died when he was...
Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

female, deceased (1852)
English women writer, countess, Women writer, computer scientist, lordbyron, British…Byron family, Augusta Ada Byron
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, is mainly known for having written a...
Lady Caroline Lamb

Lady Caroline Lamb

female, deceased (1828)
2nd Viscount Melbourne, the Prime Minister, Women writer, English, Daughters of earl, Spouse of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, English women writer…Lady Byron, Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, lordbyron
The Lady Caroline Lamb (13 November 1785-26 January 1828) was a novelist and British aristocrat, the only daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough...
John Polidori

John Polidori

male, deceased (1821)
Old Amplefordian, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, Romantic movement, Tales of the Dead, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin…Lord Ruthven, lordbyron
John William Polidori was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as...

André Maurois

male, deceased (1967)
EMILE HERZOG, prométhée ou la vie de balzac, adrienne ou la vie de Mme de LA FAYETTE, robert et elisabeth browning, olympio ou la vie de Victor Hugo, lélia ou la vie de George Sand…byron
André Maurois, or Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog was a French author and man of letters. "André Maurois" was a pen name that became his legal name in...
Claire Clairmont

Claire Clairmont

female, deceased (1879)
allegra, illegitimate, lordbyron, English, shelley, anarchist…Byron Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was a stepsister of writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's...
John Byron

John Byron

male, deceased (1786)
Battle of Restigouche, the Honourable, New France, Royal Navy, Kingdom of Great Britain, weather…lordbyron, Byron family, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, Baron Byron
Vice-Admiral The Honourable John Byron RN (November 8, 1723 - April 10, 1786) was a British vice-admiral. He was known as "Foul-weather Jack"...