George Byng (1764–1847)

George Byng DL JP (17 May 1764 – 10 January 1847), of Wrotham Park in Middlesex (now Hertfordshire), and of Wentworth House, 5, St James's Square, London,[2] was a British Whig politician.

He was the eldest son and heir of George Byng (1735-1789) (eldest son of Robert Byng (1703-1740), third son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733)[3][4]) of Wrotham Park, by his wife Anne Conolly, a daughter of William Conolly (d.1754), of Stratton Hall, Staffordshire and of Castletown, co. Kildare,[5] a Member of Parliament.

Byng was returned to Parliament for Middlesex in 1790, a seat he held until his death 57 years later.

He was offered a peerage in order to increase the Whig majority in the House of Lords prior to the 1832 Reform Act, but refused.

His heir was his younger brother, Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772-1860), elevated to the peerage in the same year.

George Byng („Byng-Go" by Richard Dighton , 1820)
Wrotham Park in 1820
Left: Wentworth House , 5, St James's Square , London, townhouse built 1748-51 by William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791) to the design of Matthew Brettingham The Elder [ 1 ]