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He seemed born for his own ruin and that of the other sex.

He began by seducing Lady Carmarthen, and spent her four thousand pounds; and, not content with one adventure of this kind, afterwards eloped with Miss Gordon.'-- Medwin's Conversations, p.31.
Lady Carmarthen here spoken of was the mother of Mrs.Leigh.

Miss Gordon became Lord Byron's mother.
By his own account, and that of Moore, she was a passionate, ungoverned, though affectionate woman.