Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1911 — Where Lord Byron Lived. [ARTICLE]

Where Lord Byron Lived.

The late Lord Glenesk’s house In Piccadilly, London, England, which is up for sale, has had several notable occupants, but none more notable than Lord Byron. Most of his brief and tempestuous married life was passed there, his daughter, Lady Lovelace, was born there, he was living there when he parted from his wife forever and in the library at the back of the house overlooking the stables—Lord Glenesk also used it as his library—he wrote “The Siege of Corinth.” The apartment remains pretty much the same as it was in 1816. There are several memorials of the poet In the house. His bust stands In a recess In the overmantel of the entrance hall. There Is an oil painting of him framed by the overmantel of the library and the secret stairs in the lobby at the back of the morning room are said to have been used by him as a means of gaining access unobserved through the still existing trapdoor to the room above. He used, it is said, the latter room as a bedchamber, though in Lord and Lady Glenesk’s time it was a drawing room.