William Byron, 5th Baron Byron in Corsica. The barony was then left to his great nephew, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, who became the 6th Baron Byron when Lord Byron died on 21 May 1798, at the age of seventy-five. Upon his death, it is said that the great number of crickets he kept at Newstead left the estate in swarms. Lord Byron is buried in the Byron vault at Hucknall Torkard in Nottinghamshire. William Byron, 5th Baron Byron William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (5 November 1722 – 19 May 1798), was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great uncle of the poet George
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,