Image ID: 24528

Lord Byron Statue, Hucknall

Courtesy of Ray Bickel

Ogle Street
Hucknall
Hucknall
England

This statue stands in a niche on the old Co-Operative Building, and was erected by Elias Lacey in 1902. Lord George Gordon Byron, the infamous poet, was born in 1788 in London, and succeeded to the family title on the death of his great-uncle in 1798. In 1801, his mother sent him to school at Harrow, and then to Trinity College in Cambridge. It was about this time he began to be interested in poetry, and in 1807 he published 'Hours of Idleness', which has been described as 'the worst book ever published by a considerable poet'. His 'Childe Harold' appeared in 1812, and brought him fame and a certain amount of money, and it was followed by other publications which made him the darling of Society. In 1815, he married Anne Isabella Milbanke, who gave birth to their daughter, Ada at the end of the year. However, their the marriage was not a happy one, and in 1816 they parted ways. Byron's unconventional mode of life had wrecked his welcome in Society, and so he left England, wandering about the Continent and living a Bohemian lifestyle. In 1823, he set out to join in the movement for the liberation of Greece, and at last in 1824 he landed at Missolonghi, where he died from rheumatic fever on 19 April of that year. His body was brought home to England and buried in the family church in Hucknall .

Date: 1999

Organisation Reference: NCCC000614

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