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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”.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.