William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron They had five sons, but the first four died in infancy: Lord Byron married Elizabeth Stonhouse, daughter of Sir George Stonhouse, 3rd Bt. and Margaret Lovelace, on 25 June 1685. A daughter (from which of the two marriages is unclear), Hon. Catherine Byron, died in 1746. William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron (1636 – 13 November 1695) was an English nobleman, peer, politician, and unskilled poet. Byron was the son of Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron and Elizabeth Rossell. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Byron in 1679 upon the death of his father.
Frances Byron, Baroness Byron little being known about Frances Berkeley's early years, she is identified in John Faber's graving of 1736, before the death of her first husband, Lord Byron. Historians have suggested that she married young because her father's letter refers to "a disproportionate match to their ages"; thus it is inferred that Lord Byron was a much older man; he is thought to have been at least thirty years older than Frances. During this marriage, Frances had six children, until Lord Byron's death on 8 August 1736. It was "through her second son John [that Frances was] the great-grandmother of Lord Byron,