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.
Lord Byron demands. It was one of these importunate loans that allowed him to travel to Valenciennes, France, where he died in 1791. When Byron's great-uncle, the "wicked" Lord Byron, died on 21 May 1798, the 10-year-old boy became the 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale and inherited the ancestral home, Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire. His mother proudly took him to England, but the Abbey was in an embarrassing state of disrepair and, rather than living there, she decided to lease it to Lord Grey de Ruthyn, among others, during Byron's adolescence. Described as "a woman without judgment or self-command," Catherine either spoiled