William Byron, 5th Baron Byron 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 Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron who succeeded him . As a result of a number of stories that arose after a duel, and then because of his financial difficulties, he became known as "the Wicked Lord" and "the Devil Byron". Byron was the son of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron and his wife Hon. Frances Berkeley, a descendant of John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. He inherited his title
Frances Byron, Baroness Byron Frances Byron, Baroness Byron Frances, Baroness Byron (later Hay; ; c.1702 – 1759), was one of the five daughters of William Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton (died 1740/1), and his wife, the former Frances Temple (died 1707). She was the third wife of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron and a great-grandmother of the poet Lord Byron. Lady Byron was one of 21 women of influence who signed Thomas Coram's petition of 1729, which led to the foundation of the Foundling Hospital. She is also known for sitting for the eighteenth-century artist William Hogarth (1697–1764), whose painting has been exhibited