Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron
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Rupert Frederick George Byron, 11th Baron Byron (13 August 1903– 1 November 1983, Mount Claremont, Western Australia) was the eleventh Baron Byron, successor of the poet George Gordon Byron.
[edit] Life
Byron was the elder son of Colonel Wilfrid Byron, of Perth, Western Australia, and of Sylvia Mary Byron, of Winchester, England, the only daughter of the Reverend C. T. Moore. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt.
A farmer and grazier in Australia from 1921, he served in the Second World War as a Lieutenant of the RANVR, from 1941 to 1946, and succeeded a kinsman to the peerage in 1949. When he died in 1983, he was succeeded by a kinsman, Richard Geoffrey Gordon Byron DSO (born 1899) Mount Claremont, WA 6010, Australia. Clubs: Naval and Military (Perth, WA). Died 1 Nov. 1983.
[edit] Family
He married Pauline Augusta, daughter of T. J. Cornwall of Wagin, Western Australia, in 1931, and they had one daughter.
| Peerage of England | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Frederick Byron |
Baron Byron 1949–1983 |
Succeeded by Richard Byron |
[edit] References
- Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron at thepeerage.com (accessed 22 August 2007)
- BYRON, Rupert Frederick George Byron in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, from Byron, Rupert Frederick George Byron (accessed 22 August 2007)
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