Byron's extraordinary personality fascinated the world, as much as his poetry, in his own time and ever since. One is bound up with the other, to form an outsize character complex and bewildering, which few have ever been able to understand, yet of perennial fascination.
AL Rowse provides a clue in Byron's remarkable and romantic background. The Byrons and Trevanions developed a fixation on each other from a succession on intermarriages, beside extra marital relationships.
This is a biography of Byron's family tree.