George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington

Robert Barlow Palmer Byng (third son of George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington), by his wife Elizabeth Maria Gwatkin, a daughter of Major-General Edward Gwatkin, a son of Robert Lovell Gwatkin.

[1] In 1884 he succeeded his uncle George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington (1812-1884) in the viscountcy.

She left her fortune to Byng as she was estranged from her ex-husband's family.

[2] Byng served briefly as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from March to October 1889 in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury.

He married twice: He died in office in October 1889, aged 48, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son from his second marriage, George Master Byng, 9th Viscount Torrington (1886–1944).