Sir Robert Byron (1611 – 1673) was an English Royalist soldier and official who spent much of his career in Ireland.
Byron's family had interests in Ireland, and he was the Member of Parliament for Augher in the Irish House of Commons from 1639 to 1649.
[1] His regiment, largely comprising Irish mercenaries, was moved to England and fought in the Battle of Nantwich in January 1644.
[2] Following the final defeat of the Royalists, Byron remained under suspicion from Cromwell's regime in Ireland and he was imprisoned on at least one occasion.
After the Stuart Restoration, he was appointed Master-General of the Irish Board of Ordnance in 1663 and made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1664.