He had already been created a baronet, of Wrotham in the County of Kent, in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1715.

His eldest son, the second Viscount, represented Plymouth and Bedfordshire in the House of Commons and later served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1746 to 1747.

John Byng, who was controversially court-martialled and shot in 1757, was the fourth son of the first Viscount Torrington.

The traditional burial place of the Viscounts Torrington is the Byng Vault at the Church of All Saints, Southill, Bedfordshire.

The heir presumptive is the present holder's fifth cousin Colin Hugh Cranmer-Byng (born 1960).