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The Lord Byron | |
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| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 15 June 1989 –11 November 1999 Hereditary peerage | |
| Preceded by | Richard Byron,12th Baron Byron |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 April 1950 |
| Spouse | Robyn Margaret McLean |
| Children | Hon. Caroline Anne Victoria Byron Hon. Emily Clare Byron Hon. Sophie Georgina Byron Hon. Charles Richard Gordon Byron |
| Parent(s) | Richard Byron,12th Baron Byron Dorigen Margaret Esdaile |
Robert James Byron,13th Baron Byron (born 5 April 1950),is a British nobleman,peer,politician,and barrister. He is a descendant of a cousin of Romantic poet and writer George Gordon Byron,6th Baron Byron.
Byron is the son of Lt. Col. Richard Geoffrey Gordon Byron,12th Baron Byron,and Dorigen Margaret Esdaile. He was educated at Wellington College in Berkshire and studied law at Trinity College,Cambridge.
He married Robyn Margaret McLean in 1979. She became Lady Byron when her husband inherited the barony on 15 June 1989. The couple have four children:
Byron was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1974 and thus became entitled to practise as a barrister. He eventually became a partner at Holman,Fenwick &Willan,and a President of the British Byron Society.
Upon inheriting his title,Byron became entitled to sit in the House of Lords,where he took the Oath of Allegiance in October 1989. He attended chamber debates infrequently,speaking mostly on bills related to the justice system and shipping law. Along with most hereditary peers,he lost the right to attend when the House of Lords Act 1999 took effect in November 1999. [2]
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Byron is resident in the New Forest,Hampshire,and in 2021 had published a novel called Echoes of a Life. [3]
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