Byron was the son of Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron and Elizabeth Mary Chandos-Pole. He gained the rank of Captain in the 19th Foot in 1842. He succeeded to the title of 8th Baron Byron in 1868 upon the death of his father. Lord Byron died on 28 November 1870, and was succeeded by his nephew, George Frederick William Byron, 9th Baron Byron (born 1855). Lord Byron married Lucy Elizabeth Jane Wescomb, daughter of Reverend William Wescomb and Jane Douglas, in 1843. They had no children. Clarence Blum  Clarence Berndt Adolf Blum (10 July 1897 in Liverpool, England – 23 September 1984 in Täby, Sweden) was a British-Swedish sculptor. Clarence Blum studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. His art works include a fountain outside the Eastman Institute in Stockholm (1936), the sculptures "Fiskegumma" at Fisktorget (1949), Malmö and "Girl with a skipping rope" (1967) at Högalidsparken in Stockholm. Francisco X. Alarcón  Francisco Xavier Alarcón (21 February 1954 – 15 January 2016) was a Chicano poet and educator. He was one of the few Chicano poets to have "gained recognition while writing mostly in Spanish" within the United States. His poems have been also translated into Irish and Swedish. He made many guest appearances at public schools so that he could help inspire and influence young people to write their own poetry especially because he felt that children are "natural poets." Alarcón was born in Wilmington, California and had four brothers and two sisters. He moved to Guadalajara, Mexico with his family when he was 6 and then moved back to California when he was eighteen. Alarcón felt that he became a writer when he was fifteen and helped transcribe his grandmother's own ballad-like songs. His grandmother was a native speaker of Nahuatl. Growing up in both the United States and Mexico and experiencing both cultures helped shape the kind of writing he would create. As a young adult, he moved back to the Los Angeles area. He received his high school diploma from Cambria Adult School. He worked in restaurants and as a migrant farm worker. During this time, he went to East Los Angeles College. Alarcón graduated from California State University, Long Beach, and Stanford University. During college, he started writing poetry, belonged to many literary circles in the area and also read his poetry out loud at various venues.