BYRNE, DUDLEY, brother of George Byrne (qv); b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1734; left 1735; m. 1754 Elizabeth, dau. of James Dillon; buried St. Audoen’s, Dublin, 29 Jul 1782.
BYRNE, GEORGE, eldest son of John Byrne, Cabinteely, co. Dublin, and Marianna, youngest dau. of Col. Dudley Colclough, Mohory, co. Wexford; b. 31 Oct 1720; adm. Sep 1734; left 1736; m. 1741 Clare, second dau. of Capt. Michael Nugent, Carlanstown, co. Westmeath, and sister of Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent (I) PC MP; d. 1763.
Byrne, John Gerald, son of Edward Crofton Byrne LRCS, of Forest Gate, Essex; b. 22 Nov. 1913; adm. May 1927 (R); left July 1931; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1931, BA 1935, MA BM 1946; MRCS LRCP 1939; RNVR 1940-5 (Surg. Lieut.); VRD; practised at Midhurst, Sussex; m. 1941 Phyllis Maud, d. of Maj. Standley IA; d. 19 May 1987.
BYRNE, THOMAS; b. ; in school list Dec 1736. [= ? Thomas Bourne (adm. 1735, qv)]
BYROM, SAMUEL, only son of John Byrom, Byrom and Parr Hall, Prescot, Lancs. , and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Otway, Kt. ; bap 8 Feb 1685/6; at school under Knipe (J. Peile, Biog. Reg. Christ’s Coll. , ii, 156); Christ’s Coll. Camb. , adm. fellow commoner 7 Mar 1702/3, aged 17; resided until Christmas 1704; commonly called “The Beau”; a hopeless spendthrift, who sold his family estates in order to speculate in a lottery; for some time in the Fleet Prison; was assisted by his kinsman John Byrom, in whose Private Journals and Literary Remains he is frequently mentioned; author, An irrefragable argument, fully proving that to discharge great debts is less injury, and more reasonable than to discharge small debts, 1729, dedicated to Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (qv), with whom “I had the honour of being boarded for many years at the same house, at Dr Knipe’s”.
Byron, Frederick Thomas Christopher, son of Frederic Noel Byron, PR officer Min. of Pensions, and Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Reid of Low Fell, co. Durham; b. 2 Aug. 1916; adm. Sept. 1930 (A); left July 1933; Merton Coll. Oxf., matric. 1936, BA 1939, MA 1943; ordained deacon 1940, priest 1941 (Llandaft); Curate St German Roath 1940-3; Priest-in-charge St David Oakdale, Penmaen, 1943-6, Sands, West Wycombe, Bucks, 1946-50; Rector of Cranford, Middx, 1950; hospitaller St Thom. Hosp. 1957; Vicar of St Martin's Ruislip, Middx, 1962-70, St James Norlands, London, 1970-83; m. 21 Apr. 1960 Margaret Caroline, d. of Canon David Howell Rowlands, Vicar of Rhosymedre, Wrexham; d. 30 Mar. 2005.
BYRON, HON. FREDERICK, third son of George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron, Admiral Royal Navy, and a Lord in Waiting to Queen Victoria, and Elizabeth Mary, dau. of Sacheverell Chandos-Pole (formerly Pole), Radburne Hall, Derbs.; b. 3 Feb 1822; adm. 27 Mar 1835 (Benthall's); left Apr 1840; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 3 Jun 1840; BA 1843; MA 1847; Fellow of All Souls Coll., 1844; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Aug 1843, called to bar 5 May 1848; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; DL Essex; m. 19 Aug 1851 Mary Jane, second dau. of Rev. William Wescomb, Thrumpton Hall, Notts., Rector of Langford, Essex; d. 4 Apr 1861.
BYRON, HON. GEORGE, brother of William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (qv); b. 22 Apr 1730; adm. Sep 1739 (Majendie's); left 1746; Ensign, 19th Foot, 27 Nov 1746; Cornet, Duke of Cumberland’s Dragoons, 21 Sep 1747; Lieut., 14th Foot, 22 May 1749; Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards, 18 Jun 1753; retd. on half-pay in Jordan’s 8th Marines, 30 Dec 1755; m. 26 Oct 1754 Frances, dau. of Elton Levett, Nottingham, surgeon; d. 6 May 1789.
BYRON, HON. JOHN, brother of William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (qv); b. 8 Nov 1723; adm. Feb 1731/2; left 1737; entered Royal Navy; Midshipman, HMS Wager 1740; his ship was wrecked off the south coast of Chile 14 May 1741, and after undergoing many hardships he and other survivors of the crew returned to England in Feb 1745/6; Lieut., 22 Mar 1745/6; Cdr., 1746; Post Capt., 30 Dec 1746; commanded HMS America in unsuccessful expedition against Rochfort, 1757; commanded HMS Dolphin in voyage round the world 2 Jul 1764 - 9 May 1766; Governor of Newfoundland, Jun 1769- Mar 1772; Rear-Adm., 31 Mar 1775; Vice-Adm., 29 Jan 1778; commanded West Indies fleet 1778-9, and was worsted by D’Estaing off Grenada; known as “Hardy Byron” or “Foul-weather Jack”; author of an account of his Voyage Round the World, 1767, and a Narrative of his shipwreck in HMS Wager, 1768; m. Aug 1748 Sophia, dau. of John Trevanion MP, Caerhayes, Cornwall; d. 10 Apr 1786. DNB.
BYRON, JOHN, elder son of Hon. John Byron (qv); b. 7 Feb 1756; at school under Smith (Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, 1898, i, 3); Ensign, 68th Foot, 27 Mar 1772; 2nd Foot Guards, 26 Jul 1773; Lieut. and Capt., 1 May 1777; Adjutant, 30 Jul 1778 - 20 Jun 1779; retd. 14 Sep 1780; served in American War; known as “mad Jack”, squandered his property and eventually fled from his creditors to France; father by his second marriage of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the poet; m. 1st, 9 Jun 1779 Lady Amelia D’Arcy, Baroness Conyers, divorced wife of Francis Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen (afterwards 5th Duke of Leeds) (qv), and dau. of Robert D’Arcy, 4th Earl of Holderness (qv); m. 2nd, 13 May 1785 Caroline, dau. of George Gordon, Gight, co. Aberdeen; d. at Valenciennes, France, 2 Aug 1791.