Baron Byron
Baron Byron , of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .
Today the barons' family residence is Bartley Close in Bartley near Southampton in Hampshire .
Award
The title was created on October 24, 1643 for the Royalist Civil War general and longtime MP, Sir John Byron .
Since he was childless, the award was made with the special note that his six brothers and their male descendants should also be entitled to inherit the title.
List of Barons Byron (1643)
- John Byron, 1st Baron Byron (1599-1652)
- Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron (1606–1679)
- William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron (1636–1695)
- William Byron, 4th Baron Byron (1669–1736)
- William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (1722–1798)
- George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824)
- George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron (1789–1868)
- George Anson Byron, 8th Baron Byron (1818–1870)
- George Frederick William Byron, 9th Baron Byron (1855-1917)
- Frederick Ernest Charles Byron, 10th Baron Byron (1861–1949)
- Rupert Frederick George Byron, 11th Baron Byron (1903-1983)
- Richard Geoffrey Gordon Byron, 12th Baron Byron (1899-1989)
- Robert James Byron, 13th Baron Byron (born 1950)
The heir ( Heir Apparent ) is the son of the current baron, Hon. Charles Richard Gordon Byron (* 1990).
Web links
- Byron, Baron (E, 1643) at Cracroft's Peerage
- Leigh Rayment′s peerage