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George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington
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He was the eldest son and heir of Major-General George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington (1701â1750), by his wife Elizabeth Daniel.WEB,weblink George Byng 4th Viscount Torrington + Lady Lucy Boyle - PhpGedView, 2010-06-06,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110720045737weblink">weblink 2011-07-20, dead, The Peerage #19704 His paternal grandfather, Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Byng, KB, was created a baronet in 1715 before being elevated to the peerage as Viscount Torrington in 1721, his family were formerly seated at Southill Park in Bedfordshire. He was a great-uncle of the politician Lord John Russell and in 1847 his cousin, Field Marshal Sir John Byng, GCB, was created Earl of Strafford.Career
(File:Neale(1829) p5.020 - Southill Park, Bedfordshire.jpg|thumb|Southill Park, Bedfordshire)He inherited the Torrington viscountcy and the family seat of Southill Park in Bedfordshire on the death of his father in 1750. He sold Southill to the beer magnate, Samuel Whitbread, in 1795.Personal life
On 20 July 1765 he married Lady Lucy Boyle (1744â1792), a daughter of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, by his wife, Margaret Hamilton,Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 900 by whom he had seven children,Byng, John. The Torrington Diaries. C.B. Andrew, editor. 4 vols. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934-8, volume 1, opposite page 382. Baptism dates drawn from the Southill Parish record book, available at the Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, Bedford, England, UK. three sons who all predeceased him, and four daughters:- Hon. Lucy Elizabeth Byng (1760â1844), who married Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl of Bradford, in 1788.
- Hon. Georgiana Elizabeth Byng (1768â1801), who married John Russell, later 6th Duke of Bedford, in 1786.
- Hon. William Henry Byng (1769â1770), who died young, predeceasing his father.
- Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Byng (1773â1830), who married Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath, in 1794.
- Hon. William Henry Byng (1775â1792), who predeceased his father.
- Hon. George Byng (1777â1792), who predeceased his father.Gentleman's Magazine 62, 5 (November 1792), 1055
- Hon. Emily Elizabeth Byng (1779â1824), who married Henry Seymour of Brighthelmston, Sussex, son of Lord Robert Seymour, in 1801.The Register of the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex: 1788-1809.
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