George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington (11 October 1740 – 14 December 1812) was an English

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Origins

He was the eldest son and heir of

George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington Major General George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington (21 September 1701 – 7 April 1750) (styled ''The Honourable George Byng'' from 1721 to 1747), of Southill Park in Bedfordshire, was a British Army officer and peer. Origins He was the 2nd surv ...

(1701-1750) by his wife Elizabeth Daniel.

Career

He inherited the Torrington viscountcy and the family seat of

Southill Park Southill Park contains the site of late medieval Gastlings or Gastlyns Manor House and is the name given to a country house in Southill, Bedfordshire and its adjoining privately owned gardens and separate public parkland; it includes a lake and wo ...

in Bedfordshire on the death of his father in 1750. He sold Southill to the beer magnate, Samuel Whitbread, in 1795.

Marriage and children

On 20 July 1765 he married Lady Lucy Boyle (1744–1792), a daughter of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, by his wife, Margaret Hamilton, by whom he had seven children, three sons who all predeceased him, and four daughters: * Lucy Elizabeth Byng (17 October 1760 – 20 September 1844), who married Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl of Bradford, 29 May 1788. * Georgiana Elizabeth Byng (1768 – 11 October 1801), who married John Russell, later 6th Duke of Bedford, 1786. * William Henry Byng (27 November 1769 – 23 November 1770), predeceased his father. * Isabella Elizabeth Byng (21 September 1773 – 1 May 1830), who married Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath, 14 April 1794. * William Henry Byng (baptized 4 June 1775 – 1792), predeceased his father. * George Byng (baptized 24 March 1777 – 13 October 1792), predeceased his father. * Emily Byng (1779 – 3 September 1824), who married the Hon. Henry Seymour of Brighthelmston, Sussex, 1 July 1801.''The Register of the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex: 1788-1809.''

Death and succession

He died on 14 December 1812, and as he left no surviving male issue he was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother

John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (18 February 1743 – 8 January 1813), styled for most of his lifetime ''The Hon. John Byng'' (before 1812), was a notable English diarist. His fifteen extant diaries, covering the years 1781–1794, describe ...

(1743-1813), who died less than a month later. `

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