Richard Byron, 12th Baron Byron
British writer (1899-1989)
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.
Early life and education
Byron was the son of Col. Richard Byron and Mabel Mackenzie Winter. He was educated at Eton College in Eton, UK.
Professional life
After passing out from the Royal Military College, Byron was commissioned into the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards as a second lieutenant on 21 August 1918, barely three months before the end of the First World War. He was promoted to lieutenant on 21 February 1920. Byron was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Bombay, Sir George Lloyd, from 1921 to September 1923. On 1 March 1929, Byron was seconded to the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry, a Territorial Army regiment, as its adjutant with the temporary rank of captain. He was promoted to the substantive rank of captain in the Regular Army on 25 March 1933, and vacated his appointment as adjutant in the yeomanry on 14 November.
Byron served as Military Secretary to the Governor-General of New Zealand, the Viscount Galway, from December 1937 to October 1939.
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