Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron

The Lord Byron
The Right Honourable; The Lord Byron
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	In office; 6 June 1949 – 1 November 1983 ; Hereditary peerage
Preceded by	The 10th Baron Byron
Succeeded by	The 12th Baron Byron
Personal details
Born	13 August 1903
Died	1 November 1983 (age 80)
Spouse(s)	Pauline Augusta Cornwall
Children	Hon. Isobel Ann Byron
Parents	Col. Wilfrid Byron; Sylvia Mary Moore

Rupert Frederick George Byron, 11th Baron Byron (13 August 1903 – 1 November 1983) was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and the eleventh Baron Byron, as a descendant of a cousin of Romantic poet and writer, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.

Life

Byron was the elder son of Col. Wilfrid Byron, of Perth, Western Australia, and of Sylvia Mary Byron née Moore, 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 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 Perth, Western Australia.

Lord Byron died on 1 November 1983 in Mount Claremont, Western Australia, 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 Wagin, Western Australia, in 1931, and they had one daughter, the Hon. Isobel Ann Byron (1932).

Arms

Coat of arms of Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron
	Coronet A Coronet of a Baron Crest A Mermaid proper Escutcheon Argent three Bendlets enhanced Gules Supporters On either side a Horse of a brown bay colour unguled Or Motto Crede Byron (Trust Byron)

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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)

Peerage of England
Preceded by Frederick Byron	Baron Byron 1949–1983	Succeeded by Richard Byron

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