British incestuous bisexual poet Lord Byron was BOTD in 1788 and died in 1824 at the age of 36. He was sexually abused by a nursemaid as a child, hitting him, touching him sexually, and bringing other lovers to their shared bedroom. Byron was born with a deformed right foot and narrowed lower leg. He walked with a limp, and wouldn’t let his wife see the foot on his wedding night or his doctors see it when he was dying. At Harrow and Cambridge, he formed "passionate" friendships with fellow students, most significantly with his early love John Edleston, a Cambridge choirboy whom Byron called his "more than friend". He wore a cornelian ring given to him by Edleston for the rest of his life. During his travels in Greece and Turkey, he had relationships with several youths, including Nicolò Giraud in Athens. In the final months of his life in Greece (1824), Byron was deeply devoted to a young Greek soldier named Loukas Chalandritsanos, to whom he addressed some of his final poems. Byron was a famous "sex symbol" of his era, known for numerous high-profile affairs. He married Annabella Milbanke in 1815, primarily to settle his debts and improve his reputation. The marriage collapsed after a year, following rumours of his infidelity and "unnatural" sexual practices. One of the greatest scandals of Byron's life was his rumored incestuous relationship with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. It is widely suspected that her daughter was Byron's child. Byron's sexuality was not just a personal matter but a recurring theme in his poetry, often expressed through coded classical allusions and the creation of the "Byronic Hero"—a figure marked by secret, transgressive passions. Lord Bi died in Missolonghi, Greece, from a fever contracted while aiding the Greek War of Independence, likely a severe flu or malaria, complicated by aggressive treatments like bloodletting. He had been a key figure in Mary Shelley's life, particularly during the famous "Year Without a Summer" (1816) when they, along with Percy Shelley and John Polidori, stayed at Villa Diodati near Geneva, sparking the ghost story contest that led to Frankenstein, with Byron's ideas and presence influencing the novel's darker themes and the creation of the Byronic hero archetype, like Victor Frankenstein. Their complex relationship, marked by intellectual exchange and personal drama (including Byron fathering a child with Mary's step-sister, Claire Clairmont), profoundly shaped Shelley's literary development and the Romantic movement's darker explorations of creation and ambition