Collection of correspondence relating to John and Catherine Byron, parents of poet George Gordon Byron This collection of letters relates mainly to the financial affairs of the parents of the poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Lord Byron, and cover the period January to April 1788, just before and after his birth in London in January 1788. They are written to, or by, James Watson, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh who was the legal agent for Catherine Byron Gordon. 1788