Seven brothers with this last name all fought at Edgehill, and one of them, John, surrendered Chester to the Parliamentarians.
Seven brothers with this last name all fought at Edgehill, and one of them, John, surrendered Chester to the Parliamentarians. A commander-in-chief of the West Indies with this surname known as "Foul Weather Jack" fought the Count d'Estaing at the Battle of Grenada in 1779. A man with this surname fathered a woman with a different surname who devised a way to compute the Bernoulli numbers using Charles Babbage's Difference Engine. Programmer (*) Ada Lovelace was the daughter of a man with this last name who was deemed "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" by Lady Caroline Lamb. That same man with this last name died in 1824 before he could attack Lepanto during the Greek War of Independence. For 10 points, give this surname of the womanizing Romantic poet of "She Walks In Beauty".
Seven brothers with this last name all fought at Edgehill, and one of them, John, surrendered Chester to the Parliamentarians.
 Byron [or Gordon  Byron] 