<P> He was christened at St Marylebone Parish Church as "George Gordon Byron", after his maternal grandfather George Gordon of Gight, a descendant of James I of Scotland, who had committed suicide in 1779 . </P> <P> "Mad Jack" Byron married his second wife for the same reason that he married his first, her fortune . Byron's mother had to sell her land and title to pay her new husband's debts, and in the space of two years, the large estate, worth some £ 23,500, had been squandered, leaving the former heiress with an annual income in trust of only £ 150 . In a move to avoid his creditors, Catherine accompanied her profligate husband to France in 1786, but returned to England at the end of 1787 to give birth to her son on English soil . He was born on 22 January in lodgings at Holles Street in London . </P> <P> Catherine moved back to Aberdeenshire in 1790, where Byron spent his childhood . His father soon joined them in their lodgings in Queen Street, but the couple quickly separated . Catherine regularly experienced mood swings and bouts of melancholy, which could be partly explained by her husband's continuingly borrowing money from her . As a result, she fell even further into debts to support his demands . It was one of these importunate loans that allowed him to travel to Valenciennes, France, where he died in 1791 . </P> <P> When Byron's great - uncle, the "wicked" Lord Byron, died on 21 May 1798, the 10 - year - old boy became the 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale and inherited the ancestral home, Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire . His mother proudly took him to England, but the Abbey was in an embarrassing state of disrepair and, rather than living there, she decided to lease it to Lord Grey de Ruthyn, among others, during Byron's adolescence . </P>

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