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What was the subject of Lord Byron’s first speech in the House of Lords?
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Lord Byron
British Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, c. 1820.
In February 1812, Lord Byron delivered his first speech in the House of Lords. The subject of his address was a humanitarian plea in which he opposed harsh Tory measures directed against riotous Nottingham weavers.1