Frederick Byron

Hon. Frederick Byron (3 February 1822 – 4 April 1861) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.

Early life Byron was born at Cheltenham in February 1822. He was a younger son of George Byron, 7th Baron Byron and Elizabeth Mary Chandos-Pole, the daughter of Sacheverell Pole Esq., of Radbourne Hall.

He was educated at Westminster School, before going up to Balliol College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, Byron made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford in 1841. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 6 runs by James Cobbett in the Oxford first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 2 runs by the same bowler. He became a fellow at All Souls College in 1843. Byron was appointed as a deputy lieutenant for Essex in September 1853. He was promoted to captain in the Sherwood Foresters in March 1859.

Personal life In 1851, Byron married Mary Jane Wescomb, a daughter of the Rev. William Wescomb and Jane Douglas. Mary Jane's sister, Lucy Elizabeth Jane Wescomb, married his elder brother, George Byron, 8th Baron Byron. Another sister, Catherine Sarah Wilhelimna Wescomb, married Lord Frederick FitzRoy (youngest son of the 5th Duke of Grafton). Frederick Ernest Charles Byron, 10th Baron Byron (1861–1949), a Reverend who married Lady Anna Ismay Ethel FitzRoy, daughter of Rev. Lord Charles Edward FitzRoy (youngest son of the 7th Duke of Grafton) and Hon. Ismay Mary Helen Augusta FitzRoy (a daughter of the 3rd Baron Southampton), in 1921.

He died suddenly, aged 39, at Westminster in April 1861, predeceasing his father. Byron's son George later became the 9th Baron Byron upon the death of Bryon's elder brother, George Byron, 8th Baron Byron.