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Picture No 10000996
Date circa 1823
Description Lord George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) in the uniform of a Greek patriot, including a cavalry helmet which he designed himself, based on descriptions of armour in Homer's Iliad. Byron supported the Greeks in their War of Independence against the Turks.
Source unnamed artist in Harper's monthly magazine February 1894 page 369
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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