Ivo Francis Byng

From FreeBMD: Registration of birth of Ivo Francis Byng in 1874

July to September 1874: Registration of birth of Ivo Francis Byng; in Kensington (Volume 1a, Page 171)

From FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Ivo Francis Byng in 1901 and FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Agnes Constance Travers in 1901

• January to March 1901: Registration of marriage of Agnes Constance Travers; in Strand, London (Volume 1b, Page 696)
• January to March 1901: Registration of marriage of Ivo Francis Byng; in Strand, London (Volume 1b, Page 696)

From British Newspaper Archive: Belfast Telegraph Thursday, 11 August 1927 Page 8 Lady's Angora rabbit farm: Started With Six Rabbits

Lady Mary Byng, whose engagement to Major Frank Naylor, D.S.O., is announced, is the younger daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strafford. The home of the family at Wrotham Park, Barnet, was built by the famous Admiral John Byng, who named the place after the Wrotham in Kent, for the Byngs were originally men of Kent.

Lord Strafford's town house in St. James's Square has been in the family for generations, and is full of valuable pictures and furniture. Before he succeeded his father in the earldom in 1918 Lord Strafford was for six years a civil engineer, and for a longer period a member of the London Stock Exchange.

One of his half-sisters, Lady Mary Byng's aunt, is also rather original. This is Lady Rachael Byng, whose home is situated near Windsor. She conducted a millinery shop in London several years ago. Last November 1926 she took 400 white Angora rabbits from Northumberland to Berkshire by special train to a new rabbit farm which she was setting up there. Her brother, the Hon. Ivo Byng, who is heir to the earldom, joined her as a partner to help to run the farm.

Lady Rachel had really started this line of business at Hexham four years previously with only six rabbits, from which she bred 2,000 and retained 400 of them. Her reason for migrating from Northumberland to the south was partly that it was easier to get the rabbit food she wanted in Berkshire. Her house also with its six acres of land was bigger than the one at Hexham. "The mills," she remarked, "are crying out for Angora fur. They give 34s a pound for it, and each rabbit yields three-quarters of a pound. Since I started it my pupils have set up farms of their own and now it is a large and thriving industry."

From FreeBMD: Registration of death of Ivo F. Byng in 1949

April to June 1949: Registration of death of Ivo F. Byng; aged 74 [born about 1875]; in Barnet, Hertfordshire (Volume 5a, Page 558)