Richard Evelyn Byrd (25 October –11 March ), aviator and recipient of the Medal of Honor, was born in Winchester, the son of Richard Evelyn Byrd (–) and Eleanor Bolling Flood Byrd. His elder brother, Harry Flood Byrd (–), served as governor of Virginia and as United States senator, and his younger brother, Thomas Bolling Byrd, was an attorney and orchardist. Dick.