Robert BYRON (1922)

Born 26 February 1905 in Wembley, Middlesex
Died 24 February 1941, aged 35

Robert Byron was the son of Eric Byron and Margaret, née Robinson, of Southall Manor, Middlesex. He was a distant relative of the poet.

He was educated at Eton College, where he was active in the Society of Arts, and took a third in Modern History in 1925.

He was a travel writer, best known for The Road to Oxiana, an account of his visit to Persia and Afghanistan, published in 1937.

He was a war correspondent who died after his ship, the SS Jonathan Holt, was torpedoed by the German submarine U-97 off Cape Wrath, Scotland. His body was never found.