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	Because of his Scottish heritage - his mother's family and his lifelong interaction with them; his time at Aberdeen Grammar School; the fact he is known to have referred to himself as a Scot - it is not wholly accurate to term him "English". I concede "Anglo-Scottish" is clunky and so I fully agree with Iskandar323 that "British" is the most appropriate term. ] (]) 16:57, 23 October 2022 (UTC)		Because of his Scottish heritage - his mother's family and his lifelong interaction with them; his time at Aberdeen Grammar School; the fact he is known to have referred to himself as a Scot - it is not wholly accurate to term him "English". I concede "Anglo-Scottish" is clunky and so I fully agree with Iskandar323 that "British" is the most appropriate term. ] (]) 16:57, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
	:: I have to disagree. Identity is a slippery thing, yes, and he had a cosmopolitan outlook. But time and time again, Byron emphatically identified himself as English (when not pretending to be Italian). Throughout his poetry and his correspondence, he identified England as his home, and himself as English, indeed being a displaced or exiled "son of England" was a recurrent motif. He identified himself as English, and he was regarded as English in his time, both in Britain and in Europe. So I'd prefer to default to that. Any lingering Scottish connections ~~should~~ be dealt with in the main text, not in the lede as a matter of his main identity.		:: I have to disagree. Identity is a slippery thing, yes, and he had a cosmopolitan outlook. But time and time again, Byron emphatically identified himself as English (when not pretending to be Italian). Throughout his poetry and his correspondence, he identified England as his home, and himself as English, indeed being a displaced or exiled "son of England" was a recurrent motif. He identified himself as English, and he was regarded as English in his time, both in Britain and in Europe. So I'd prefer to default to that. Any lingering Scottish connections can be dealt with in the main text, but it should not be in the lede as a matter of his main identity. As a matter of national identify, Byron was an English writer, not Anglo-Scottish, not British and not Italian.
	:: As a person of multiple countries myself, I am a bit sensitive about who I claim to be. And should my Wiki biographers, a couple of centuries hence, decide to assign the place I lived in my youth (roughly the same timespan as Byron in ~~Scotland~~) as my nationality, I would be very disappointed and regard it as ridiculous. ] (]) 06:47, 24 October 2022 (UTC)		:: As a person of multiple countries myself, I am a bit sensitive about who I claim to be. And should my Wiki biographers, a couple of centuries hence, decide to assign the place I lived in my youth (roughly the same timespan as Byron in Aberdeen) as my nationality, I would be very disappointed and regard it as ridiculous. ] (]) 06:47, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

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More please on that memorial prompted by Ripley caption (re section Post-Mortem)

Robert Ripley had drawn a picture of Boatswain's grave with the caption "Lord Byron's dog has a magnificent tomb while Lord Byron himself has none". This came as a shock to the English, particularly schoolchildren, who, Ripley said, raised funds of their own accord to provide the poet with a suitable memorial.

This could do with a year and a location of that memorial to Byron being stated. Ripley lived 1890-1949 and the caption was in a series of 'Believe It or Not' published in 1950. I am not sure if Ripley was unaware of the gravestone in Hucknall Church presented by the King of Greece, and the statue unveiled in 1880 in Hyde Park Corner, London, whose plinth was a gift of the Greek Government.Cloptonson (talk) 17:26, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

"Laying in state"

In Britain, "lying in state" takes place only in Westminster Hall. A public viewing in any other location is "lying in repose." --Kent G. Budge (talk) 15:15, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Noel

We say:

He obtained a Royal Warrant, allowing him to "take and use the surname of Noel only" and to "subscribe the said surname of Noel before all titles of honour".

From that point onwards it would seem that he was no longer George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, but George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron.

Why is this not reflected in the lede and infobox? -- Jack of Oz 03:02, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Lord Byron's national identity

Lord Byron being described simply as "English" is not accurate but is rather a clumsy over-simplification of his complex national identity.

He himself identified as at least partly Scottish, saying he was "half a Scot by birth, and bred/A whole one". In this, he vocally identified as a Scot. He was educated for a time at Aberdeen Grammar School and reportedly had a Scottish accent (albeit a faint one) throughout his life.

The Gordons were of course a family with strong links to the north-east of Scotland (a branch of the Gordons held the Earldom of Huntly in north-east Scotland), and Byron corresponded with Aberdeenshire kin and relations all his life. He clearly had a Scottish component to his identity, as evidenced by his wearing tartan in his Greek campaign, visibly identifying with the (not that old) Scottish Highland martial tradition. He was also referred to by others as a Scot at the time, most famously by his lover Lady Caroline Lamb and by his first biographer Sir Cosmo Gordon.

Scotland was also the subject of many of his poems, most notably "Lachin Y. Gaer".

He was, at least partially, Scottish in his identity.

For more evidence, see: Murray Pittock, "Scotland: The Global History, 1603 to the Present" (2022). Scottymacd (talk) 16:23, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

'Anglo-Scottish' is a rather tortured and convoluted when 'British' quite clearly covers both those bases. Not that the point isn't interesting or worthy of mention/clarifying. I suggest the material on his sympathies lying more with a Scottish identity than an English one, assuming it can be supported by reliable sources, be placed somewhere in the actual article itself. Iskandar323 (talk) 19:14, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

"British" is a loaded term, full of 20th century assumptions and connotations; the term "Anglo-Scottish" was carefully chosen as a consequence to reflect an early nineteenth century cultural reality, however tortured some people may find it.

I will update the article; notwithstanding a prevailing Anglocentric ignorance in some quarters, there is a wealth of reliable sources - however overlooked in English historiography - indicating Lord Byron had a very complex national identity. Scottymacd (talk) 07:29, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

'British' is a less loaded term than 'Anglo-Scottish', pertaining as it simply does to a provenance in the British Isles rather than a specific 'national' narrative. Iskandar323 (talk) 10:12, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Complicating things, regardless of his upbringing/identity, is his hereditary English peerage, as, regardless of anything else, he was an 'English' peer. Iskandar323 (talk) 10:32, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

"English Bards and Scottish Reviewers"? He evidently identified himself as English. Walrasiad (talk) 10:54, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Scottymacd, English Baroque: you are edit warring here, which is disruptive. Any further reverts without talk page consensus may result in blocks. You need to come to a consensus on how best to describe the subject before making changes to the page. If you aren't already familiar with it, please read WP:UKNATIONALS, which discusses how we refer to people like this. Also pinging Iskandar323 and Walrasiad, who have commented above. Girth Summit _(blether) 13:33, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for all your input. With regards to Lord Byron's title, it belongs to the Peerage of England because it was created (in the 17th century) before parliamentary union and so before the Peerage of Great Britain existed. Functionally, however, he sat in the House of Lords of the UK and does not appear (from what I can discern) to have had a strong engagement with the locality of his baronial title (Rochdale). As regards "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers", he was tongue-in-cheek contrasting his poetic works with the critical reviewers of the "Edinburgh Review", but a significant part of his poetry deals with Scotland. "Lachin Y Gaer" ("Lochnagar") is amongst his most famous poems and it demonstrates a connection with the north-east of Scotland (where he was educated between 1794 and 1798 and where his mother's family - the Gordons - hailed).

Thank you for your input, Iskandar323 and Walrasiad. It is clear that Byron - so complex in many ways - had a complex national identity. Indeed, that he was such a proactive internationalist is an important part of his character (and why he is still revered in Greece and Albania).

Because of his Scottish heritage - his mother's family and his lifelong interaction with them; his time at Aberdeen Grammar School; the fact he is known to have referred to himself as a Scot - it is not wholly accurate to term him "English". I concede "Anglo-Scottish" is clunky and so I fully agree with Iskandar323 that "British" is the most appropriate term. Scottymacd (talk) 16:57, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

I have to disagree. Identity is a slippery thing, yes, and he had a cosmopolitan outlook. But time and time again, Byron emphatically identified himself as English (when not pretending to be Italian). Throughout his poetry and his correspondence, he identified England as his home, and himself as English, indeed being a displaced or exiled "son of England" was a recurrent motif. He identified himself as English, and he was regarded as English in his time, both in Britain and in Europe. So I'd prefer to default to that. Any lingering Scottish connections can be dealt with in the main text, but it should not be in the lede as a matter of his main identity. As a matter of national identify, Byron was an English writer, not Anglo-Scottish, not British and not Italian.

As a person of multiple countries myself, I am a bit sensitive about who I claim to be. And should my Wiki biographers, a couple of centuries hence, decide to assign the place I lived in my youth (roughly the same timespan as Byron in Aberdeen) as my nationality, I would be very disappointed and regard it as ridiculous. Walrasiad (talk) 06:47, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

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