Cattle were being kept within the crypt hay was stored in the refectory the verdant woods had been devastated to pay for the extravagant lifestyle of Byron’s great-uncle, named “The Wicked Lord” after he killed his cousin in a duel.Ī fortune would be required for Newstead’s restoration, but a fortune was not to be found. The Abbey was uninhabitable when young Byron and his mother first arrived there in August 1798. “The Abbey and I shall stand and fall together, and were my head as grey and defenseless as the Arch of Priory, I would abide by this Resolution.” “I will never sell Newstead,” a 21-year-old Lord Byron told his lawyer John Hanson in April 1809. Our own direct link to the boldly transgressive Lord Byron and his only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace the brilliant woman who predicted the universal computer in 1843, and who was buried, at her wish, beside her father, close to their beautiful family home. In 2018, Newstead Abbey remains the county’s greatest literary treasure.
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