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| February 27, 1812 |
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| Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) |
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Byron's Maids
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1812 Lord Byron spoke for the first time in the House of Lords, choosing for his topic the recent Luddite rioting. Byron was twenty-four, recently returned from the obligatory Grand Tour of Europe, and ready for a career; had his speech been the success he hoped for, there is every chance that the career might have been in politics, rather than in poetry and persecution. Byron had joined the Whig Club at Cambridge; he had taken his seat in the House at twenty-one, and before leaving for Europe he had begun to attend debates on a weekly basis, even to do committee work. He had a heroic view of things, but this was no bar to politics, and his passions were spectacular only in degree ... FULL STORY »
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