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 Dan Chapman's 2010 vampire novella "The Postmodern Malady of Dr. Peter Hudson" begins at the time of Lord Byron's death and uses biographical information about him in the construction of its title character. It also directly quotes some of his work. John Crowley's book "" (2005) involves the rediscovery of a lost manuscript by Lord Byron, as do Frederic Prokosch's "The Missolonghi Manuscript" (1968), "The Secret Memoir of Lord Byron " by Christopher Nicole (1979) and Robert Nye's "Memoirs of Lord Byron" (1989). "The Black Drama" by Manly Wade Wellman, originally published in "Weird Tales", involves the rediscovery and production