Dr. Kate Lister

And when he inherits it, it's not in great shape.

It's already looking like it's gothic and kind of crumbling.

But Byron really loves that when he goes to visit it at 10, because it's already imprinted that gothic, crumbling, ruined, former glory.

This is the site of many a horrendous and spooky

event.

He absolutely loves that and it stays with him all of his life, even though he never lived there for any great length of time.

That's how they turn Newstead Abbey into some money in the early days.

They've got other properties that they stay at as well.

Of course, the other thing that when he comes into his inheritance, it gives him the opportunity to do is get more money on credit because now money lenders will lend to him.

So he's in debt most of his life.

He's always fleeing creditors.

If there's one thing that Byron does a lot of, it's spend.

He spends a lot of money and he spends on mad things.

Harrow, of course he does.

A young gentleman, he will go to Harrow, where he is addressed as a lord as well.

Right, exactly.

Little Lord Byron.

And I'm sure that he wasn't alone there.

Little Lord Byron.

But one thing that we should talk about him is that, because this is quite formative to his character and his life experience as well, is that he did have a disability.