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William Byron, 4th Baron Byron

British Baron (1669–1736)

Summary

British Baron (1669–1736)

Field	Value
name	William Byron, Lord Byron
office	Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
term_start	13 November 1695
term_end	8 August 1736
Hereditary peerage
predecessor	William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron
successor	William Byron, 5th Baron Byron
image	View of a Park with Deer by William Byron, 4th Baron Byron.jpg
caption	View of a Park with Deer, William Byron, 4th Baron Byron, Yale Center for British Art.
birth_date	4 January 1669/70
death_date	8 August 1736 (aged 66)
spouse	Lady Mary Egerton
Lady Frances Wilhelmina Bentinck
Hon. Frances Berkeley
children	Hon. George Byron
Hon. William Byron
Hon. William Henry Byron
Hon. Isabella Byron, Countess of Carlisle
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron
Hon. John Byron
Hon. Rev. Richard Byron
Hon. George Byron
father	William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron
mother	Hon. Elizabeth Chaworth
birth_place	Newstead, Nottinghamshire
death_place	Newstead, Nottinghamshire

Lord Temporal Hereditary peerage Lady Frances Wilhelmina Bentinck Hon. Frances Berkeley Hon. William Byron Hon. William Henry Byron Hon. Isabella Byron, Countess of Carlisle William Byron, 5th Baron Byron Hon. John Byron Hon. Rev. Richard Byron Hon. George Byron

William Byron, 4th Baron Byron (4 January 1669/70 – 8 August 1736) was an English nobleman, politician, peer, and Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Prince George of Denmark.

Early life

Byron was the only surviving son of William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron and Elizabeth Chaworth. He succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Byron in 1695 upon the death of his father.

He held the family seat of Newstead Abbey and had a townhouse at 15 Great Marlborough Street in central London; he leased it from 1709 and it remained in the family until 1774.

Marriages and children

Frances, Lady Byron]], by [[William Hogarth]] (1736)

Lord Byron firstly married Lady Mary Egerton, daughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater and Lady Jane Powlett, in 1702/3, but they had no children.

Secondly, he married Lady Frances Wilhelmina Bentinck, daughter of Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland and Anne Villiers, in 1706. All four of their children died in childhood or infancy:

George Byron (1707–1719)
William Byron (1709–1709)
William Henry Byron (1710–1710)
Frances Byron (1711–1724)

Frances Wilhelmina died on 31 March 1712.

He married thirdly Frances Berkeley, daughter of William Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton, and Frances Temple, in 1720. They had six children:

Isabella Byron (1721–1795), wife of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (1722–1798)
Vice-Admiral John Byron (1723–1786)
Reverend Richard Byron (1724–1811)
Charles Byron (1726–1731)
George Byron (1730–1789)

Death

Lord Byron died at Newstead Abbey on 8 August 1736, and was succeeded by his fourth (but oldest surviving) son William Byron, 5th Baron Byron.

His widow Frances remarried Sir Thomas Hay, Bart., of Alderston in 1741 and was buried on 21 September 1757 in Twickenham, Middlesex.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/memorialstwicke00cobbgoog

Citations

References

Emily Brand, The Fall of the House of Byron (John Murray, 2020)

References

"Great Marlborough Street Area Survey of London: Volumes 31 and 32, St James Westminster, Part 2". LCC 1963.
William Musgrave. (1899). "Obituary prior to 1800: (as far as relates to England, Scotland, and Ireland) Vol. I". The Harleian Society.
Brand, Emily. (2020). "The Fall of the House of Byron". John Murray.
Sir Bernard Burke, LL.D.. (1866). "A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire". Harrison, 59, Pall Mall.

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