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 allowed to leave his exile in the Romagna under the condition that his daughter return to him, without Byron. At the same time that the philhellene Edward Blaquiere was attempting to recruit him, Byron was confused as to what he was supposed to do in Greece, writing: "Blaquiere seemed to think that I might be of some use-even "here";-though "what" he did not exactly specify". With the assistance of his banker and Captain Daniel Roberts, Byron chartered the brig "Hercules" to take him to Greece. When Byron left Genoa, it caused "passionate grief" from Guiccioli, who wept openly as he