Lord Byron

Subject: Lord Byron Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:12 pm

My copy of Newf News arrived today and there was an article about Lord Byron the 18th century poet and writer who owned several Newfoundland dogs including the most well known - Boatswain.

Anyway what amused me was this:-

" It was the custom in those days to send a lock of hair to ones lover (And Lord Byron apparently had many of those Laughing

) some of these have survived to the present day and have had a DNA analysis done on them"

It turns out that they were all hairs cut of his dog Boatswain Rolling Eyes

Subject: Re: Lord Byron Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:26 pm

So I assume from that, that all his lovers were dogs. Laughing

Subject: Re: Lord Byron Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:24 am

colin wrote:: So I assume from that, that all his lovers were dogs.

Maybe he had so many lovers that he was afraid of going bald if he used his own hair Rolling Eyes