Robert Byron (travel writer)
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Robert Byron was an English travel writer, best known for his travelogue The Road to Oxiana. He was also an art critic and historian.
Byron and Desmond Parsons in China sometime before 1937
Shrine of Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa, photographed by Robert Byron. Photograph held in The Courtauld Conway Library of Art and architecture.
Robert Byron's British passport issued in 1923
Desmond Parsons
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Hon. Desmond Edward Parsons FRAS was a British aristocrat, amateur sinologist, and aesthete, regarded as "one of the most magnetic men of his generation." He had a passionate friendship with James Lee
Robert Byron (travel writer)
…those in England who imagined that some sort of compromise with this new wickedness was possible". Byron's great, though unreciprocated, passion was for Desmond Parsons, younger brother of the 6th Earl of Rosse, who was regarded as one of the most charismatic men of his generation. They lived together in Peking, in…
Desmond Parsons