George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the most famous poet of his generation, at home and abroad. "Mad, bad and dangerous to know", he was loved by and loved both women and men. A life-long bisexual, his last love poems were addressed to a young Greek. He had two children: as a married man he had one legitimate daughter with his wife; and he had another outside of matrimony, with Claire Clairmont, the half-sister of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
