George Byron, 7th Baron Byron

Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron (8 March 1789 – 2 March 1868) was a British nobleman, naval officer, peer, politician, and the seventh Baron Byron, in 1824 succeeding his cousin the poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron in that peerage. As a career naval officer, he was notable for being his predecessor's opposite in temperament and lifestyle.

Early life Byron was born on 8 March 1789 at Bath, Somerset. He was the only son of Capt. Hon. George Anson Byron and Charlotte Henrietta Dallas. His sister, Juliana Maria Charlotte Byron, married the Rev. Robert Heath. He sailed on in September 1824, accompanied by several naturalists and, amongst his lieutenants, Edward Belcher. He toured the islands and recorded his observations. With the consent of Christian missionaries to the islands, he also removed wooden carvings and other artefacts of the chiefs of ancient Hawaii from the temple ruins of Puuhonua O Hōnaunau.

On his return journey in 1825, Lord Byron discovered and charted Malden Island, which he named after his surveying officer; also the island of Mauke which he named "Parry Island" in honour of Sir William Edward Parry, and Starbuck Island. Starbuck was named in honour of Capt. Valentine Starbuck, an American whaler who had sighted the island while carrying the Hawaiian royal couple to England in 1823–1824, but had probably been previously sighted by his cousin and fellow-whaler Capt. Obed Starbuck in 1823. Malden may have been the island sighted by another whaling captain William Clark in 1823, aboard the Winslow. Byron became a rear-admiral in 1849, a vice-admiral in 1857 Together, the couple had seven children:

The Hon. Mary Anne Byron (–1885), who married John Blenkinsopp Coulson of Blenkinsop Castle, in 1834.

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