George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron, the most prolific English romantic poet, was born in London on the 22nd of January 1788 with a club foot which he later attributed to his mother’s tight corsets. The Encyclopaedia Britannica quotes: “He was lame from his birth. His right leg and foot, possibly both feet, were contracted by infantile paralysis, and, to strengthen his muscles, his mother sent him in the summers of 1796, 1797, to a farm house of Deeside. He walked with difficulty, but he wandered at will, soothed and inspired by the grandeur of the scenery.”