Born in 1788, died in 1824; inherited the title and the
estate of Newstead Abbey in 1798; educated at Harrow and
Cambridge; published "Hours of Idleness" in 1807; traveled
on the Continent in 1809-11; published the first two cantos
of "Childe Harold" in 1812; married Miss Milbanke in 1815;
separated from her in 1816, and abandoned England; met the
Countess Guiccioli at Venice in 1819; lived subsequently at
Ravenna, Pisa and Genoa; joined the Greek insurgents in
1823; died of a fever at Missolonghi, Greece.
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