January 07, 2018 Sunday
Bedtime Story
End of Lord Byron
All these wars were a heavy price to pay
for the other empires as well as we saw in the case of France and the French
Revolution.
One of the primary reasons for the
revolution were such multiple wars being waged abroad by French soldiers.
This is not to say the Ottomans were all by
themselves as they too had their own ideological and religious vassals that
included eyalets of Egypt, Algeria and Tripolitania.
One of the supporters of Greeks
revolutionaries turned out to be father of Lady Ada Lord Byron who too was
convinced enough that he needed to save the Christian cultural heritage that originated
with the Greeks from the dark skinned Sultans.
For the war that was never his, he not only
abandoned his wife but also his mistress who in turn had abandoned her husband
to stay with him.
Byron spent considerable fortune of his in
the war for Greeks even selling off his estate Rochdale Manor in Scotland.
He was spending his money in pound sterling
which in today’s estimate would have been millions of dollars.
Byron had become the subject of
solicitation of multiple group of Greek revolutionaries as news spread far and
wide that a fabulously wealthy British Aristocrat famous for his generosity had
come down to fight for the Greeks.
Greek then was a desperately poor country.
Byron was going all out to help the Greeks
in their war of independence as seen by this letter that he wrote to his agent
in Scotland, “I should not like to give the Greeks but a half helping hand” which
made his intentions clear of spending his entire fortune on this war.
He developed a serious fever in 1824 and
died most likely of sepsis that probably developed due to unscientific “treatment”
of bloodletting with unsterile instruments.
Whatever Lord Byron may have been, he was
no father to Ada Byron having abandoned both her, her mother Anne Isabella and
his country England forever never to see all three ever again.
Even that one year when he was with his
wife Anne Isabella, Byron’s life was replete with extra marital affairs and
sexual escapades with multiple women making life of Anne Isabella both misery
and hell.
It may be that Anne Isabella would have
been greatly relieved when she got rid of this vile and crazy sexual maniac for
good.
Yet it is well known that even till her
very end she was obsessed with this man who she always knew had a streak of
madness in him.
Anna Isabelle or Lady Byron herself was a
very intelligent woman apparently even having the gift of mathematics in her.
She feared that her daughter might inherit
the madness from her father and to root it out she decided to give her daughter
rigid education from home in mathematics and science through the best of
private tutors.
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Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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