George Byng (politician, 1764)

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George Byng (caricature "Byng-Go" by Richard Dighton, 1820)
Wrotham Park (around 1820)

George Byng DL JP ( May 17, 1764 - January 10, 1847 ) was a British Whig politician and parliamentarian.

origin

George Byng of Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire was the son of George Byng († 1789) and a grandson of the Hon. Robert Byng, the third son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington . His mother was Anne Byng, the daughter of the Privy Council of Ireland William James Conolly († 1754). John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford, was his younger brother.

Life

From 1773 to 1780 he attended the prestigious Westminster School and from 1780 studied mathematics at the University of Göttingen under Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . In Göttingen he was friends with Piter Poel and like him became a member of the influential ZN student order . After Poel's consilium abeundi because of a duel , they both traveled together at Easter 1781 for the summer to Lübeck and to the Zierow family estate to see Poel's sister Magdalena Pauli .

Byng inherited Wrotham Park from his father in 1789 and became Member of Parliament in 1790 , briefly for Newport , then in the same year for Middlesex . He kept this parliamentary seat until his death 57 years later. In his early years as a politician, he was a companion of MP Charles James Fox . Between 1832 and 1847 he was the senior president of the lower house . He was offered the ennoblement to strengthen the Whig majority in the House of Lords prior to the 1832 Reform Act , but turned it down. Byng was Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Middlesex. He is known as the Regency art collector .

He married Harriet Montgomery; the marriage remained childless. Wrothham Park was inherited from his younger brother, General John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford in 1847 and is still owned by the family today.

literature

  • [Piter Poel:] Pictures from bygone times, according to information from largely unprinted family papers. Edited and introduced by Gustav Poel . Part 1: Pictures from Piter Poels and his friends' lives. 1760-1787. Hamburg 1884, pp. 261, 284, 287 and 311ff. ( online ).
  • Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenberg's listener. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, p. 149.
  • Walter Richter: The Esperance and ZN medals. In: then and now. 1974 yearbook of the Society for Corps Student History Research. Pp. 30-54 (No. 116).

Web links

Commons : George Byng (1764-1847)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MPs for Twickenham and Middlesex: Bankers and Politicians . The Twickenham Museum, November 7, 2003. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
  2. ^ A b John Burke Genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank: but uninvested with heritable honors , Colburn, 1836, p. 14th
  3. ↑ Enrollment on September 22, 1780 as stud. math., anglus
  4. ↑ a b c Wrotham Park and its History ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Londonopenhouse  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.londonopenhouse.org
  5. ^ Two late Regency collectors: Philip John Miles and George Byng , Christie's, London 2005
  6. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wrotham Park  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wrothampark.com
personal data
SURNAME Byng, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Whigs) and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1764
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1847