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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.

Byham, George Richard Garth, son of William Louis Byham, L. R. C. S., of Sunbury-on­ Thames, Middlesex, by Grace Violet Durham, daughter of John Hudson Lamb, of Hampton, Middlesex; b. April 16, 1895; adm. April 28, 1910 (A); left Easter 1914; enlisted in the 5th Batt. London Regt.; 2nd Lieut. 8th Batt. Middlesex Regt. (T. F.) March 20, 1915; Lieut. Nov. 5, 1916; Capt. Sept. 11, 1916; served in France 1914-7; mentioned in despatches L. G. June 1917; wounded Aug. 16, 1917; M.C. Oct. 18, 1917; Capt. R. A. O. C. Dec. 1, 1939; Major 1941; T. D. 1946; m. March 19, 1926, Gladys Wilhelmina, daughter of William Nicholson, of Theydon Bois, Essex; d. 11 Dec. 1981.

BYNDLOSS, ---; b.; in school list Jun 1764; left Nov 1764.

BYNE (or BYNNE), EDMUND, elder son of Sir John Byn (n)e, Kt., Rowdell, Washington, Sussex, and Audrey, dau. of Richard Weaver, Lingfield, Sussex; bapt. 2 Sep 1602; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Churtch, Oxford 1621, matr. 29 Nov 1621, aged 19, but apparently a gentleman commoner at Ch. Ch. rather than a Westminster Student; succ. father at Rowdell 1640/1; m. 26 Oct 1631 Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Goring MP, Highden, Washington, Sussex; buried 22 Oct 1646.

BYNG, ---; b.; in school list 1780; left Whitsun 1786.

BYNG, HON. EDMUND JOHN SHANSON, second son of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (qv); b. 11 Sep 1774; adm. 21 Jan 1784; at Charterhouse Sch. 1785-90; Ensign, 26th Foot, 18 Aug 1790; Lieut., 7th Foot, 11 May 1791; Capt., 18 Apr 1795; retd. 1803; Commissioner, Colonial Audit Office; d. unm. 5 Apr 1854.

BYNG, HON. FREDERICK GERALD, son of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (qv); b. 1784; at school under Vincent (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1827); Page of Honour to Prince of Wales 1791; Lieut. [or Cornet : check], 27th Light Dragoons 1799; Lieut. in Army 26 Jan 1801; 53rd Foot 13 Aug 1801, half-pay 1802; Clerk, Foreign Office, 23 Jan 1801-22, Second Class Clerk 28 Mar 1822-4, Senior Clerk 5 Jan 1824 - retd. 5 Apr 1839; a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber from 18 Dec 1830; known as “Poodle” Byng on account of his crisp, curly hair; a well-known figure in London society during the first half of the 19th century; a private in the Volunteers when they were reviewed by George III in 1803, and in the Queen’s Westminster Volunteers when they were reviewed by Queen Victoria in 1860; m. Catherine Neville; d. 5 Jun 1871.