Article: Fearless protest: Robert Byron, born a hundred years ago, was an architectural critic and polemicist whose passionate invective is needed today more than ever.(Architecture)(Biography)

Robert Byron, who was born a century ago this month, died in February 1941, when the ship taking him to Persia to be a war correspondent was torpedoed in the north Atlantic. Had he survived, it is highly unlikely that he would be around today to celebrate his 100th birthday, but he probably would have become better known, together with those other remarkable writers of his brilliant generation--John Summerson, James Lees-Milne and John Betjeman--who did so much to encourage interest in British architecture after the war. As it was, his achievement was largely forgotten and he was for long best known as a travel writer because of his remarkable book The Road to Oxiana, ...

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