Poverty, in which Byron was born and from which not delivered him the title of Lord, gave the direction of his future career. When he was born (at Hall Street in London, January 22, 1788), his father had squandered the family fortune, and his mother returned from Europe with the remnants of the state. Lady Byron settled in Aberdeen, and its "lame boy," as she called her son, was given a year in a private school, then transferred to the classical gymnasium. About children's antics Byron tell many stories. Gray Sisters, to nurse the little Byron, found that kindness can do with it what you want, but his mother always went out of himself by his disobedience, and throwing the boy into horrible. At the outbreak of the mother he often responded with jeers, but one day, as he himself says, he took away the knife, which he wanted to stab herself. In high school, he studied poorly, and Mary Gray, read him the psalms and Bible brought him more good than a high-school teacher. When George was 10 years old, he died of his great-uncle, and the boy was inherited the title of Lord and patrimony
