William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron (1636 – 13 November 1695) was an English nobleman, peer, politician, and unskilled poet.

Life

Byron was the son of

Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron (1606 – 4 October 1679) was an English nobleman, Royalist, politician, peer, knight, and supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War. Life Byron was the son of John Byron (died 1625) and Anne Molyneux, an ...

and Elizabeth Rossell. He succeeded to the title of 3rd

Baron Byron Baron Byron, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1643 by letters patent for Sir John Byron, a Cavalier general and former Member of Parliament. The peerage was created with ...

in 1679 upon the death of his father. Lord Byron died on 13 November 1695, and was succeeded by his fifth (but only surviving) son

William Byron, 4th Baron 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 ...

(born 1669/70).

Family

Lord Byron married the Hon. Elizabeth Chaworth, daughter of

John Chaworth, 2nd Viscount Chaworth John Chaworth (1605 – June 1644) was 2nd Viscount Chaworth of Armagh.The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (c. 1900); George Edward Cokayne, volume 1, page 130. He was the son of George Chaworth, 1st Viscount Chaworth of Armagh and Mary Knyveton. ...

of Armagh and Hon. Elizabeth Noel, in 1660. They had five sons, but the first four died in infancy: * Hon. William Byron (born before 1670) * Hon. Richard Byron (born before 1670) * Hon. John Byron (born before 1670) * Hon. Ernestus Byron (born before 1670) *

(1669/70–1736) Lord Byron married Elizabeth Stonhouse, daughter of Sir George Stonhouse, 3rd Bt. and Margaret Lovelace, on 25 June 1685. A daughter (from which of the two marriages is unclear), Hon. Catherine Byron, died in 1746. She married Arthur Cole, 1st Baron Ranelagh; they had no children.

References

William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron
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William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

17th-century English nobility Barons Byron