George Byng was a British Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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He sat for Wigan

Wigan (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1768 to 1780 and Middlesex

Middlesex (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1780 to his death.

He was the son of Robert Byng

Robert Byng

Robert Byng was the third 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...

 and grandson of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington

George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington

Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, KB PC was a British naval officer and statesman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His career included service as First Lord of the Admiralty during the reign of King George II.-Naval career:Byng was born at Wrotham, Kent, England...

. He inherited the estate of Wrotham Park from his uncle John Byng

John Byng

Admiral John Byng was a Royal Navy officer. After joining the navy at the age of thirteen he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. Over the next thirty years he built up a reputation as a solid naval officer and received promotion to Vice-Admiral in 1747...

, the admiral who was court-martialled and shot in 1757 following the fall of Minorca.

On 5 March 1761 he was married to Anne Conolly (died 1806), daughter of William James Conolly

William James Conolly

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 and granddaughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Their children included George Byng

George Byng (1764–1847)

George Byng DL JP , of Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, was a British Whig politician.-Background:Byng was the son of George Byng, son of the Hon. Robert Byng, third son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington...

 and John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford

John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford

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