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Byron was an aesthete and member of the so-called Bright Young Things of London between the wars; in Beijing he was visiting his friend (and unrequited love) Desmond Parsons (1910–1937), as well as his Eton \u0026amp; Oxford contemporary Harold Acton (1904–1994) who was living there at the time. Byron's great desire was to go to Japan, and his further travels did include Japan, along with America, Russia and Siberia. He met an untimely death in 1941 during World War II when the ship he was on was torpedoed. 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