Short answers, pulled from the story.
Lord Byron, born George Gordon Byron on the 22nd of January 1788, was a British poet and one of the major figures of the Romantic movement. He is regarded as among the greatest British poets, best known for the long narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and lyrics such as She Walks in Beauty.
Lord Byron died of a fever in Missolonghi, Greece, on the 19th of April 1824, at the age of 36. He fell ill on the 15th of February 1824, and the therapeutic bleeding insisted on by his doctors worsened his condition.
Lord Byron joined the Greek War of Independence to fight the Ottoman Empire after accepting overtures from the independence movement while bored in Genoa. He chartered the brig Hercules, left on the 16th of July 1823, and spent his own fortune on the cause, including 4,000 pounds to refit the Greek fleet.
Westminster Abbey refused Lord Byron's body for reason of questionable morality after his death in 1824. He was buried instead at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, and a memorial to him was finally placed in Westminster Abbey in 1969.
Ada Lovelace was Lord Byron's daughter, born in December 1815 to his wife Annabella Milbanke. She collaborated with Charles Babbage on the analytical engine and is recognised as one of the world's first computer programmers, and she was later buried beside her father.
Lord Byron kept a large menagerie that included horses, dogs, monkeys, cats, an eagle, a crow, a falcon, peacocks, guinea hens, an Egyptian crane, a fox, a badger, a heron, a goat, and a tame bear he kept at Trinity College. Percy Shelley described ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon at his home in Ravenna.