William Byron, 4th Baron Byron (4 January 1669/70 – 8 August 1736) was an English nobleman, politician, peer, and

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Early life

Byron was the only surviving son of

William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron 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 and Elizabeth Rossell. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron B ...

and Elizabeth Chaworth. He succeeded to the title of 4th

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 1695 upon the death of his father.

Marriages and children

Lord Byron firstly married Lady Mary Egerton, daughter of

John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater KB PC (9 November 1646 – 19 March 1701) was a British nobleman from the Egerton family. He was the eldest son of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater and his wife Elizabeth Cavendish. His maternal gran ...

and Lady Jane Powlett, in 1702/3, but they had no children. Secondly he married Lady Frances Wilhelmina Bentinck, daughter of

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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

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and Frances Temple, in 1720. They had six children: * Isabella Byron (1721–1795), wife of

Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle KG (14 August 1694 – 3 September 1758), styled Viscount Morpeth until 1738 was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1738 when he succeeded to the Peerage as Earl of Carlis ...

William Byron, 5th Baron Byron William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (5 November 1722 – 19 May 1798), was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great-uncle of the poet George Gordon Byron who succeeded him in the title. As a result of a number of stories that arose after a d ...

(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

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on 8 August 1736, and was succeeded by his fourth (but oldest surviving) son

. His widow Frances remarried Sir Thomas Hay, Bart., of Alderston in 1741 and was buried on 21 September 1757 in

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Citations

References

William Byron, 4th Baron Byron
at thepeerage.com (accessed 26 November 2009) *Emily Brand, ''The Fall of the House of Byron'' (John Murray, 2020)

External links

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