International Byron Society

News from our local new paper.
A Cavalry helmet designed by Lord Byron has gone on display at his ancestral home, Newstead Abbey.
The helmet is one of 10 objects that have been chosen by museums across the county to tell a history of Nottinghamshire and its place in the world.
Byron’s helmet, the design of which he based on descriptions of armour in ancient Greek poet Homer’s ‘Iliad’. Has become a symbol of liberty after Byron’s heroics in Greece.
In 1823, the people of Greece were fighting a war of independence from Turkish rule.
Byron supported the Greeks in their struggle for freedom and took arms and medical supplies bought with his own money.
Byron, who is buried in Hucknall Parish Church, also maintained an army of 500 mercenaries from his personal funds and formed an artillery brigade from the many foreign volunteers from Europe and America who had gone to Greece to help fight the war.
However, despite Byron’s efforts to unite them, the Greek leader plotted against each other and their internal rivalries weakened their campaign against the Turks.
When he dies from fever in April 1824, Byron was celebrated worldwide as a martyr to the cause of liberty.
His sacrifice bought the Greek leader together and attracted support from other nations so that in 1829 the Greeks won their freedom. Byron remains a hero in Greece.

Which is your local new paper and the author of those comments Lesleydawn?

Hi Lesley,Hi Andreas,we're all still alive after all lol
is there a picture of the helmet,Lesley? has the local paper a website?
cheers back to you all
Debora

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Our local paper is the Chad, i will look into finding the name of the author

Here is a scan of the story as printed in the Hucknall Despatch

Alan,


Thank you for scanning the story in, nice for others to see the picture too.

Allan, Lesleydawn, thanks for the posts.

It's nice to see local papers refering to the poet, even if it is done in a romantic, exaggerating way.
Byron's death could not unite the Greek, or the Italian leaders, but it did attract the support of the nations - things that could be done, before the ostracism of fantasy by vision.

"Still alive" Debora?
Of course! :)

Thanks for the scan Lelsey,I saved it:-)
hiya back again Andreas, I agree with your thought about B, his action was indeed useful to Greece's destiny (and other countries'), none can dismiss that.
Alive and kicking, so, lol,glad we're somehow still at it here:-)

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