George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford

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8^th Jun 1806 - 29^th Oct 1886

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Biography

2nd Earl of Strafford, PC (8 June 1806 – 29 October 1886), styled Viscount Enfield between 1847 and 1860, was a British peer and Whig politician.

Eldest son of John Byng (later 1st Earl of Strafford, 1772-1860) and Mary Stevens Mackenzie. (Married 1804; Mary died 1806). John Byng was MP for Poole, 1832-1835 and one of the few generals who supported the Reform Act. Favoured by Melbourne, created 1st Earl of Strafford in 1835. [For John Byng see Oxford DNB.]

Mary was the daughter of Peter Mackenzie of Grove House, Twickenham [DNB] and owner of Harmony Hall, Jamaica (Vere).

Marriages and children:

Married first to Lady Agnes, daughter of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, 7 March 1829. She died October 1845. Six children:

George Henry Charles, styled Viscount Enfield, later 3rd Earl of Strafford (1830–1898); Hon. Henry William John, later 4th Earl of Strafford (1831–1899); Hon. Francis Edmund Cecil, later 5th Earl of Stafford (1835–1918); Lady Agnes Mary Georgiana (1833–1878), married Hedworth Jolliffe, 2nd Baron Hylton; Lady Mary Caroline Charlotte (1838–1933), married Richard Arkwright; Lady Victoria Alexandrina Anna Maria (d. 1899), married Arthur Fuller.

Married second to the Hon. Harriett, daughter of Charles Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham, 1848. (She died June 1892.) Seven children:

Hon. Charles Cavendish George (1849–1918); Hon Alfred John George (1851–1887); Hon. Lionel Francis George (1858–1915); Hon. Julian Hedworth George, later 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862–1935); Lady Susan Catherine Harriet (d. 1936), married Thomas Trueman; Lady Elizabeth Henrietta Alice (d. 1920); Lady Margaret Florence Lucy (d. 1945), married Hon. John Richard Boscawen.

At 77 Eaton Square in 1841; at 82 Eaton Square in 1851, at Wrotham Park House, South Mimms, in 1861, 1871 and 1881.

Sources

T71/858 Vere claim no. 37 (Harmony Hall).

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/byng-george-1764-1847 [accessed 06/08/2012].

H. M. Stephens, ‘Byng, John, first earl of Strafford (1772–1860)’, rev. John Sweetman, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4264, accessed 06/08/2012].

England censuses online.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

(1) Lady Agnes, daughter of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, 7 March 1829-October 1845; 2. Hon. Harriett, daughter of Charles Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham, 1848-1880

Children

With (1): 3 daughters, 3 sons. With (2): 3 daughters, 4 sons

Occupation

Politician

Associated Claims (1)

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1806 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman

Harmony Hall [ Jamaica | Vere ]

Trustees of George Stevens Byng counterclaimed for 1/3rd of the compensation for the enslaved people on Harmony Hall as a reversionary interest (and an annuity of £300 p.a.) after the life interest of his grandmother Mary Mackenzie and subject to a mortgage of £5000 held by Joseph Brooks Yates.