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b. c. 1599, 1st s. of Sir John Byron of Newstead and Anne, da. of Sir Richard Molyneux I* of Sefton, Lancs. educ. Trin. Camb. 1615, MA 1618; travelled abroad (France, Italy) 1620-3; DCL Oxf. 1642. m. (1) aft. 1629, Cecilia (d. Feb. 1638), da. of Thomas West†, 3rd Bar. de la Warr, wid. of Sir Francis Bindloss* of Borwick, Lancs., s.p.; (2) 1644, Eleanor (d. 26 Jan. 1664), da. of Robert Needham*, 2nd Visct. Kilmorey [I], wid. of Peter Warburton of Arley, Cheshire, s.p. suc. fa. 1625; cr. KB 1 Feb. 1626; cr. Bar. Byron of Rochdale 24 Oct. 1643. d. by 13 Aug. 1652.CP, ii. 454; Al. Cant.; APC, 1619-21, p. 156; Clarendon, Life (1827) i. 284; C142/455/37; Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 162.
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Commr. musters, Notts. 1626, APC, 1625–6, p. 476. sheriff 1634–6, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 105. exacted fees 1634, perambulation Sherwood Forest 1641, C181/4, f. 159; 181/5, f. 210. array 1642, Northants. RO, FH133. rebels’ estates (roy.), Lancs. and Cheshire 1644. Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 118.

Asst. Mineral and Battery Works Co. 1635, dep. gov. 1637. BL, Loan 16/2, ff. 73, 77v.

Capt. of horse 1640, Docquets of Letters Patent, 113; CSP Dom. 1640, p. 365. col. (roy.) 1642–6; P.R. Newman, Roy. Officers in Eng. and Wales, 54. field-marshal-gen. Worcs., Salop, Cheshire, Lancs. and N. Wales 1643–4; CSP Dom. 1644, p. 371. gov. of Chester 1644–6,Richard Symonds’s Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army ed. C.E. Long (Cam. Soc. lxxiv), 173, 259. Caernarvon 1646. Newman, 54.

Gent. of privy chamber extraordinary by 1626-at least 1641; Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 162; LC3/1, unfol. lt. of the Tower 1641–2; CSP Dom. 1641–3, pp. 215, 281. gent. of the robes to James, duke of York 1644–6, Ibid. 1644–5, p. 191. gov. 1648 – 50, supt.-gen. and recvr. of revenues 1650–d. Clarendon, Hist. of the Rebellion ed. W.D. Macray, iv. 328; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 394; CCSP, ii. 51, 101.

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BYRON, John (1599-1652), of Newstead Abbey, Notts.
Main residence: Newstead Abbey, Notts.
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J.P.F.
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Commons 1604-1629
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BYRON, John (c.1599-1652)

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