“Lord Byron was honoured not only in England. He was honoured, and maybe more so, also in his second homeland, Greece.” It’s a book full of breathless hyperbole, but in this ...

The Greek War of Independence erupted into the the early nineteenth century as Europe was being shaken to its roots by riots in many nations.

Lord Byron may be regarded as one of England’s ... His heart may have (literally) stayed in Greece, but his body rests in the churchyard near his ancestral home Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire.

In 1823 the people of Greece were fighting a War of Independence from Turkish rule. Lord Byron supported the patriots in their struggle for freedom, bringing arms and medical supplies bought with ...

It adjoins the memorials to Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll and D.H. Lawrence. The white marble stone is inlaid with gold Sienna marble lettering and reads: LORD BYRON Died 19 April 1824 aged 36 at ...