John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare KP GCH PC was an Anglo Irish aristocrat and politician.
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George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known
John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare
…moving to the Isle of Wight where she built a Catholic church at Ryde and a Priory at Carisbrooke. He was also known to have been a great friend of Lord Byron while attending Harrow School. Byron had claimed to love him "ad infinitum" and said that he could never hear the word "Clare" without "a murmur of the…
Portrait of Lord Byron, c. 1813
An engraving of Byron's father, Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron, date unknown
Catherine Gordon, Byron's mother, by Thomas Stewardson