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 a character refers to Lord Byron’s promiscuity: ‘I think, beneath that English exterior throbs a passion that would make Lord Byron look like a tobacconist.’ Byron appears as an immortal, still living in modern times, in the television show "" in the fifth-season episode "The Modern Prometheus", living as a decadent rock star. Television portrayals include a 2003 BBC drama on Byron's life, an appearance in the 2006 BBC drama, "", and minor appearances in "" (as well as the Shelleys), "Blackadder the Third", episode 60 (Darkling) of "", and was also parodied in the animated sketch series, Monkey Dust.