George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford

George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, PC (8 June 1806 – 29 October 1886), styled Viscount Enfield between 1847 and 1860, of Wrotham Park in Middlesex (now Hertfordshire) and of 5 St James's Square, London, was a British peer and Whig politician.

In 1825 he transferred to the 85th Regiment of Foot as a lieutenant and was promoted to captain in 1826,[citation needed] in which rank he served in the 60th Rifles.

[3] Byng's political career began in 1830 when he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Milborne Port,[4] a seat he briefly held before taking the post of Comptroller of the Household to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (his father-in-law, Lord Anglesey), less than a year later.

[11] When Lord John Russell became Prime Minister in 1846, Byng was appointed Joint Secretary to the Board of Control, a post he retained until 1847.

Byng married twice: Lord Strafford died in October 1886, aged 80, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, George.

Arms of Byng, Earl of Stratford, being the arms of John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford , namely paternal arms of Byng ( Quarterly sable and argent in the first quarter a lion rampant of the second ), with augmentation of honour granted in 1815 by the Prince Regent of in bend sinister a representation of the colour of the 31st Regiment of Foot , in recognition of his heroic action at the Battle of the Nive
Queen Victoria Riding Out by Francis Grant , 1940. Byng is amongst the group of courtiers on the left