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Byron is the son of Lt. Col. Richard Geoffrey Gordon Byron, 12th Baron Byron, and Dorigen Margaret Esdaile. He was educated at Wellington College in Berkshire and studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Robyn Margaret McLean in 1979. She became Lady Byron when her husband inherited the barony on 15 June 1989. The couple have four ...
They had six children, including William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron (1636–1695) and Hon. Catherine Byron, who married Sir William Stanhope. He married Elizabeth Booth, daughter of Sir George Booth, 1st Baronet and Katharine Anderson, after 1651. No children resulted. One of Lord Byron's younger brothers was the Royalist soldier Sir Robert Byron.
Members of the Byron family sat in the English House of Commons and, as Barons Byron in the House of Lords. The most famous member was the Romantic poet George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron, known simply as "Lord Byron".
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 ...
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.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [6]
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At their marriage Frances was just 17, and Lord Byron was 51. [3] During this marriage, Frances had six children: Isabella Byron (1721–1795), wife of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle; William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (1722–1798) Vice-Admiral John Byron (1723–1786) Reverend Richard Byron (1724–1811) Charles Byron (1726–1731)