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Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Geoffrey Gordon Byron, 12th Baron Byron DSO (3 November 1899 – 15 June 1989) was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and army officer. He was a descendant of a cousin of Romantic poet and writer, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.
Following the death of the 1st Baron without heirs in 1652, Sir Richard Byron succeeded to the peerage under a special remainder. He inherited an estate heavily reduced through sequestration, the total value of his wealth estimated at £1,200. 10 Having been previously content to remain on the sidelines, Byron now displayed a determined, if ineffectual, commitment to the royalist cause.
4 October 1679 (aged 73) Rochdale, Lancashire. Spouse (s) Elizabeth Rossell, Elizabeth Booth. Parents. John Byron (father) Anne Molyneux (mother) Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron (1606 – 4 October 1679) was an English nobleman, Royalist, politician, peer, knight, and supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War .
The Hon. Richard Noel Byron (1948–1985) Robert James Byron, 13th Baron Byron (1950) Byron succeeded to the title of 12th Baron Byron in 1983 upon the death of his fifth cousin Rupert Frederick George Byron, 11th Baron Byron, in Australia. Lord Byron died on 15 June 1989 at age 89, whereupon his surviving son Robert Byron became the 13th Baron.
Richard Byron, second Baron Byron of Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire. Artwork by Graham Turner, from 'Edgehill 1642', copyright Osprey Publishing, part of Bloomsbury.
Mar 21, 2020 · Richard Byron (1606 – 1679) When the time came to pick sides during the Civil War, Richard knew which side his bread was buttered. A fierce royalist, he remained loyal to Charles I, fighting as a Valiant Colonel at the Battle of Edgehill - the first major battle of the conflict.
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Jun 6, 2020 · 1. Sir John Byron MP, later 1st Baron Byron. 2. Sir Richard Byron, later 2nd Baron Byron. 3. Col Sir Robert Byron, Royalist Governor of Liverpool, mar. Hon Lucy West, dau. of Thomas [West], 3rd Baron De La Warr, by his wife Cicely Shirley, dau. of Sir Thomas Shirley, of Wiston, co. Sussex, and had issue. 4.
