Short answers, pulled from the story.
George Gordon Byron was born on the 22nd of January 1788 on Holles Street in London. He grew up in a family history stretching back to the 11th century and William the Conqueror before inheriting Newstead Abbey at age ten.
George Gordon Byron was born with a deformed right foot that caused him a lifelong limp and profound psychological misery. Modern medical historians debate whether this condition was infantile paralysis or a dysplasia of the bones.
George Gordon Byron swam across the Hellespont on the 3rd of May 1810. He and Lieutenant Ekenhead swam from Europe to Asia during his Grand Tour, an event now commemorated annually as an open water swimming race.
George Gordon Byron left England in April 1816 due to severe public scandals, mounting debts, and rumors of incest with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. The legal separation from his wife Lady Byron on the 16th of January 1816 and the subsequent public outcry forced his permanent exile.
George Gordon Byron died in Missolonghi on the 19th of April 1824 at the age of 36. He contracted a fever after falling ill on the 15th of February 1824 while participating in the Greek War of Independence.
George Gordon Byron is buried at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, after Westminster Abbey refused his burial due to his questionable morality. A memorial to him was finally placed in Westminster Abbey in 1969, 145 years after his death.