ROBIN BYRON, LORD BYRON
On leaving school followed the Poet's footsteps to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history followed by law. He became a barrister and subsequently a solicitor specialising in maritime law. On his father's death in 1989 he took his seat in the House of Lords, leaving when the reform of the House of Lords took place in 1999. He retired from legal practice in 2014. His novel, Echoes of a Life, was published in 2021.
JOHN LYTTON, EARL OF LYTTON
Born 1950 Minehead Somerset UK and brought up on Exmoor; educated at Downside School and University of Reading’s College of Estate Management; professional career as a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors: initially in public sector then private practice. As parliamentarian, first sat in the House of Lords by succession to father in 1985, departing in 1999 and then returning as elected hereditary peer in 2011. Sits as independent crossbench peer. Great-great-great grandson of George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron through his daughter Ada, granddaughter Anne Blunt and great-granddaughter Judith Baroness Wentworth. Former president of the Newstead Abbey Byron Society (now dissolved) and vice president of the Byron Society, London. Honorary president of the Missolonghi Byron Society. Other famous ancestors include Robert Lytton, Viceroy of India 1885 and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Arabist, political campaigner, diarist and poet.