Harrow 1801

2017

Catherine insisted on sending Byron to Harrow. In response to the harsh treatment that he received at Harrow from the schoolmasters and some of his fellow students, Byron wrote to his mother in 1804: “I will cut myself a path through the world or perish in the attempt. Others have begun life with nothing and ended Greatly. And shall I who have a competent if not a large fortune, remain idle, No, I will carve myself the passage to Grandeur, but never with Dishonor.” His first friends were Edward Noel Long, Robert Peel, Lord Delawarr, and William Harness. Byron defends the younger boys against bullies.