George Gordon Byron green plaque

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# Holles Street: Where a Poet's Legend Began Standing before this modest townhouse on Holles Street, you're standing at the precise coordinates of literary genius—the very room where George Gordon Byron drew his first breath on January 22, 1788, emerging into a world that would soon know him as one...

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Holles Street

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Lord Byron, widely regarded as one of the greatest British poets was born here 22 January 1788 "Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine"