Rupert Frederick George Byron, 11th Baron Byron (13 August 1903 – 1 November 1983) was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and the eleventh

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, as a descendant of a cousin of Romantic

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and writer,

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...

Life

Byron was the elder son of Col. Wilfrid Byron, of

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, and of Sylvia Mary Byron née Moore, of

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, the only daughter of the Reverend C. T. Moore. He was educated at

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, Holt. A farmer and grazier in

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from 1921, he served in the

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as a Lieutenant of the RANVR, from 1941 to 1946, and succeeded his first cousin once removed, the Rev. Frederick Ernest Charles Byron, 10th Baron Byron, to the peerage in 1949. He belonged to naval and military clubs in

. Lord Byron died on 1 November 1983 in

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, and was succeeded by his fifth cousin, Lt. Col. Richard Geoffrey Gordon Byron, 12th Baron Byron DSO (born 1899).

Family

He married Pauline Augusta Cornwall (d.1993), daughter of T. J. Cornwall of

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, in 1931, and they had one daughter, the Hon. Isobel Ann Byron (1932).

Arms

References

*''BYRON, Rupert Frederick George Byron'' in ''Who Was Who 1897–2006'' online, fro
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