Britain's first popular vampire story was published in 1819 by John Polidori, formerly Lord Byron's personal physician.

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The shirts are each inspired by a poet, including John Keats, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Milton, Sir Andrew Motion and Robert Burns.

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From the beginning volunteers from Europe and America, notably Lord Byron, went to Greece to assist the cause, although militarily they made little difference.

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During one particularly eventful summer in 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and John Polidori rented the Villa Diodati manor in Cologny, near Lake Geneva.

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Sligo got so excited after following to Mount Parnassus and its oracle the opium-loving Lord Byron that he started building his own temple of dreams in these wilds in 1815.

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And it was seized from the French in 1798 by Ali Pasha, an Albanian who entertained such intrepid visitors as Lord Byron and Edward Lear and built himself a fine triangular castle nearby.

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In 1987 she appeared as Mary Shelley in Gothic, Ken Russell's lurid take on the visit by the Shelley's and Lord Byron to the Villa Diodati which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.

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The Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan, Byron Lewis, took over the ceremonial role.

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