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BYAM, SAMUEL, son of Maj. Samuel Byam, Antigua, and Elizabeth Anne, dau. of George Clarke, Clarke’s Hill, Antigua; half-brother of Thomas Warner (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1721; left 1729; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Jun 1729; of parish St. Andrew’s, Holborn, on marriage; m. 9 Dec 1735 Grace, dau. of Col. Edward Warner, Eltham, Kent, sometime member Council of Antigua; d. in Antigua 13 Jan 1738.

BYAM, WILLIAM, brother of George Byam (qv); b. 3 Jul 1706; adm. Oct 1717; in under school list 1720; a Col. in the Militia, and member, Council of Antigua; of Westbourne House, Paddington, Middlesex, and of Byams, Antigua; m. 19 Jun 1735 Anne, dau. of Col. John Gunthorpe, member, Council of Antigua; d. in Barbuda 26 Sep 1755, from a chill caught while saving some of a crew wrecked off that island.

BYAM, WILLIAM, eldest son of Col. William Byam, Cedar Hill, Antigua, member Council of Antigua, and Mary, widow of Nathaniel Sampson, and dau. of John Yeamans, Mill Hill, Old Road, Antigua, Lieut. -Gov. Antigua; b. ; in under school list 1715; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 Jun 1720, aged 17, scholar 8 May 1721; BA 1723/4; adm. Gray’s Inn 30 Aug 1722; returned to Antigua; d. there.

Byard, Paul Spencer, son of Dever Spencer Byard, lawyer, of New York, and Margaret, d. of John Mather of Glasgow; b. 30 Aug. 1939; adm. from Milton Acad., MA, USA, May 1956 (QS); left July 1956; Yale Univ, CT, USA; Clare Coll. Camb., BA 1963, MA 1968; Harvard Law Sch., MA, USA; Grad. Sch. Architecture, Columbia Univ., New York, USA; architect, James Stewart Polshek & Associates 1977-89, partner 1981-9; partner, Charles A. Platt Partners 1989- (Platt Byard Dovell White 2007-); pres. Architectural League of New York 1989-94; a specialist in the renovation of historic buildings in New York City; m. 1965 Rosalie Starr Warren; d. 15 July 2008.

BYDE, JOHN, brother of Thomas Plumer Byde (qv); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 2 Aug 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 12) Apr 1735; left 1737; a Portugal merchant, in Lisbon until 1755, subsequently in London; director, South Sea Co.; Cashier, Salt Office, from 24 Jan 1763; DL Hertfordshire 1745. [note will John Byde, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, proved PCC 27 Jun 1781]

BYDE, THOMAS PLUMER, son of Thomas Byde, Ware Park, Herts., and his second wife Catherine, dau. of John Plumer, Blakesware, Herts.; bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 31 Aug 1720 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Apr 1735; left 1737; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Jan 1737/8, matr. 1738; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Mar 1739/40, and to Gray’s Inn 2 Feb 1746/7; of Ware Park, Herts.; DL Hertfordshire 1745, JP 1742-78; MP Hertfordshire 1761-8; bankrupt, May 1779; m. 16 Sep 1749 Eleanor, dau. of Andrew Hope, Norton Folgate, London, brewer; d. at Naples 26 May 1789, where he had been living since 1786.

BYERLEY, PHILIP, brother of Robert Byerley (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 21 Jul 1704 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1718; KS 1719; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1723, adm. pens. 15 Jun 1723, scholar 17 Apr 1724, matr. 1724; BA 1726/7; adm. Inner Temple 1722; of Goldsborough, Yorks.; “was a very pretty gentleman . . . but did not make that figure that he might otherwise have done” (Works of Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol, 1787, i, 26); d. 20 Jan 1734.

BYERLEY, ROBERT, eldest son of Robert Byerley MP, Goldsborough, Yorks., and Mary, formerly wife of James Campbell, and dau. of Philip Wharton, Edlington, Yorks., Warden of the Mint; b.; in under school list 1715-7; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Apr 1720, aged 18; adm. Inner Temple year 1715/6; of Mildridge Grange and Goldsborough, Yorks.; d. 26 May 1729.

Byers, Charles Frank, Baron Byers, son of Charles Cecil Byers, dir. United Molasses Ltd, of Potters Bar, Middx, and Florence May, d. of James Fairclough of Northenden, Cheshire; b. 24 July 1915; adm. Apr. 1929 (H); left July 1934; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1934, ran against Cambridge in the relay races 1935, in the Univ. Sports 1936-7; BA 1938, MA 1946; RA 1940-5 (Lieut-Col.); GSOI Eighth Army; despatches Feb. 1943, July 1944 and May 1945; OBE (Middle East) Jan. 1944; Chevalier Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre (palmes); MP (L) N. Dorset 1945-50; Lib. Chief Whip 1946-50; exec. dir. RTZ Corpn 1951-73; Vice-Pres. Liberal Party 1954-65, Chair­man 1965-7; created Baron Byers (Life Peer) 1964; FBIM 1965; Lib. Leader House of Lords 1967-84; PC 1972; DL (Surrey) 1974; m. 1939 Joan Elizabeth, d. of William Oliver of Golders Green; d. 6 Feb. 1984.

BYFIELD, CHARLES, son of George Byfield, London, architect, Surveyor to estates of Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and Rhoda Henrietta Abbott, St. George’s, Hanover Square; b. ; in school lists 1795,1797,1801; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Jul 1802, aged 18, but did not matr.