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Newstead Abbey

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Newstead Abbey , Nottinghamshire, central England, on the border of Sherwood Forest, between Nottingham and Mansfield. It was founded c.1170 by Henry II in atonement for the murder of Thomas à Becket. It was secularized and granted to John Byron by Henry VIII. Lord Byron lived at the abbey intermittently from 1798 to 1816; he sold it in 1818. His rooms are preserved as he left them. Author not available, NEWSTEAD ABBEY. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

George Gordon Noel Byron Byron, 6th Baron
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... his mother. In 1798, after years of poverty, Byron succeeded to the title and took up residence at the family seat, Newstead Abbey. He subsequently attended Dulwich school and Harrow (1801-5) and then matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge ... Read more

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	Byron and Newstead: The Aristocrat and the Abbey.(Book Review) Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2003; Graham, Peter W.; 787 words ; ... with Sheila Aley, Byron and Newstead: The Aristocrat and the Abbey (Newark and London: University ... retrospective portrait of Newstead as Norman Abbey in the English Cantos of ... subtitle of Beckett's book, Newstead Abbey is the dominant subject ... Read more
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