George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron - Achilleion Palace - Gastouri, Corfu, Greece - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

The Achilleion is a palace a few kilometers south of the main town of Corfu. It was built from 1890 to 1892 for the Austrian empress Elizabeth (Sisi). In 1907 it was bought by the German Emperor. During World War I the palace was used as a field hospital by Serbian and French troops. After the war it became Greek property. In World War II, it was again used by Foreign troops, from 1941 Italians, after 1943 Germans, who used the building as their headquarters on the island. From 1962 to the early 1980s it was a casino, until it was bought by the Greek state in 1983. Today it is a museum and one of the islands major tourist attractions.

From Wikipedia: "George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest English poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular."

This statue of Lord Byron is at the foot of the backyard at the entrance to the park. It is not a very prominent location for one of the most favorite authors of the Empress. Probably it was relocated by the next owner, Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, who had a very different literaric taste than Sisi. I could not find any details, but it is documented that he got rid of a large statue of the poet Heinrich Heine, that now stand in France.

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