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Byron, John, 1756-1791

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Personal name headingByron, John, 1756-1791
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LocatedLondon (England) Paris (France) Doncaster (England) Bath (England) Fyvie (Scotland) Hampshire (England) Cowes (England) Kent (England) Aberdeen (Scotland) Valenciennes (France)
Birth date17560207
Death date17910802
Place of birthPlymouth (England)
Profession or occupationSoldiers
Found inByron, John. John "Mad Jack" Byron manuscript material [NYPL Pforzheimer Manuscript (B'ANA 0530)] autograph signature on letter to Monsieur Perigrand, September 30, 1781 (John Byron)
Marchand, L. A. Byron: a biography [New York: Knopf, 1957] : v. 1, p. 12-31 (John "Mad Jack" Byron, father of Lord Byron, the English poet; born at Plymouth on February 7, 1786; sent to Westminster School and later to a French military academy; his father bought him a commission in the Guarrds and he served for a time with the British forces in America, but was back in London by 1778; met Lady Carmarthen (née Lady Amelia d'Arcy) in 1778 and married her on June 9 1779 after her husband, later 5th Duke of Leeds, secured a divorce from Parliament; after retiring for a while to her house near Doncaster, the couple went to France, where they lived until her death on January 26, 1784; one child, Augusta (1783-1851), survived beyond infancy; "Captain Byron" met Catherine Gordon of Gight in Bath in the spring of 1785, married her on May 13, and soon the Byrons were established at Gight; by August 1786 they took a house in South Warnborough, Hampshire; by July of 1787 they took a house in Cowes, soon after which John Byron fled to France to escape creditors; in early January of 1788, he returned to Great Britain, moving frequently around England and Scotland; it is unknown if he witnessed the birth of his son George Gordon Byron (the poet) on January 22 of 1788 at Holles Street in London, where he eventually joined his family; the Byrons moved frequently until Mrs. Byron left the spendthrift Captain and went to Aberdeen with the baby; John Byron took a house on the coast of Kent by the summer of 1789, then joined his wife and child for a time in Scotland; he finally abandoned his wife and child in late 1790 and lived for a time at the home of his sister, Mrs. Leigh, in Valenciennes; he died on August 2, 1791)
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