George Byron, 8th Baron Byron of his father. Lord Byron died on 28 November 1870, and was succeeded by his nephew, George Frederick William Byron, 9th Baron Byron (born 1855). Lord Byron married Lucy Elizabeth Jane Wescomb, daughter of Reverend William Wescomb and Jane Douglas, in 1843. They had no children. George Byron, 8th Baron Byron Captain George Anson Byron, 8th Baron Byron (30 June 1818 – 28 November 1870) was a British nobleman, army officer, peer, politician, and the eighth Baron Byron, as the son of Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron, who was the cousin of Romantic poet and writer George Gordon
William Byron (MP) with his cousin Juliana Elizabeth Byron, daughter of Admiral John Byron. Byron contested Morpeth at the 1774 general election on the Carlisle interest. He was defeated, but seated as Member of Parliament on petition on 28 January 1775. There is no record of any vote or speech by him in the eighteen months he was in Parliament. Byron as heir was due to inherit the Barony, but he died on 22 June 1776. His son was killed by cannon fire in 1794 while fighting in Corsica and the barony ultimately went to the poet Lord Byron. William Byron (MP) Hon.