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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.
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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.