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About Robert Byng

Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be circa 1704 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.


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@R-2146814369@ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812 1,1624::0

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London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P69/BRI/A/005/MS06540/003 1,1624::6339297

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@R-2146814369@ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 1,9841::0

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@R-2146814369@ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812 1,1624::0

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London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P69/BRI/A/005/MS06540/003 1,1624::6339297

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@R-2146814369@ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 1,9841::0

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1,9841::169285708

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@R-2146814369@ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812 1,1624::0

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London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P69/BRI/A/005/MS06540/003 1,1624::6339297

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@R-2146814369@ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 1,9841::0

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1,9841::169285708


Robert Byng served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Plymouth from 1728 to 1739 and as Governor of Barbados from May 1739.



Robert Byng (1703–1740) was the fourth son of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington by his wife Margaret Master. On 19 December 1734 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Forward and by her had issue, including an eldest son, George, born 1735. This George, later of Wrotham Park, was the father of John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford. Robert Byng served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Plymouth from 1728 to 1739 and as Governor of Barbados from May 1739.

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Robert Byng's Timeline

1703
November 7, 1703
St. Bride Fleet, London, Middlesex (now Greater London), England (United Kingdom)
1703
London, England (United Kingdom)
1735
1735
1740
October 11, 1740
England, Southill, Bedfordshire
1740
Age 36
1740
Age 36
1741
1741
USA, Pennsylvania, Chester County
1744
February 9, 1744
Chester County, Pennsylvania
1749
1749
USA, Maryland, Cecil