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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 .
Born Richard Byron Wetmore in Glens Falls, New York, [1] he played the violin before entering the Army, but wished to join the Army Band and taught himself to play the cornet. He had formal musical training at the New England Conservatory of Music , but credited his improvisational skills to his period in the army.
Richard Byron was born in 1769 to the Honourable Richard Byron, rector of Haughton, and Mary, née Farmer. He was the nephew of Admiral John Byron. [1] On 23 September 1803, he married Sarah Sykes, the daughter of a navy agent and the sister of John Sykes (1773–1858), later to be Vice-admiral John Sykes. [1]
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 ...
Richard Byron may refer to: Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron (1606–1679), English Royalist during the English Civil War; Richard Byron, 12th Baron Byron (1899–1989), British peer and British Army officer; Richard Byron (Royal Navy officer) (1769–1837), British naval officer; Carlotta (performer) (Richard Byron, born 1943), Australia cabaret ...
Byron was the son of Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron and Elizabeth Rossell. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Byron in 1679 upon the death of his father.. Lord Byron died on 13 November 1695, and was succeeded by his fifth (but only surviving) son William Byron, 4th Baron Byron (born 1669/70).
Richard Perry, a prominent record producer who helped craft dozens of hits with a polished pop sound throughout the 1970s and ’80s, such as Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” died Tuesday ...
Byron Barton, 92, American writer and illustrator. [38] Paul Geoffrey, 68, British-born American actor (Excalibur, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights), cancer. [39] Jim Hines, 76, American sprinter and football player (Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs), Olympic champion . [40]