Richard Byron, 12th Baron Byron 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. Richard Byron, 12th Baron Byron 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. Byron was the son of Col. Richard
Lord Byron in popular culture novels "The Stress of Her Regard" (1989) and "The Anubis Gates" (1983), Walter Jon Williams's fantasy novella "Wall, Stone Craft" (1994). Byron is resurrected as a computer program in Amanda Prantera's 1987 novel "Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years After His Lordship's Death". Byron is portrayed as an immortal in the book, "Divine Fire", by Melanie Jackson. In the comic thriller, "Edward Trencom's Nose" by Giles Milton, several of Edward's ancestors are poisoned, along with Byron. In the novel "The History of Lucy's Love Life in Ten and a Half Chapters", Lucy Lyons uses a time machine to