George Byng

Politician.

Byng’s heir was his younger brother, Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772–1860), whose wife Mary was the daughter of Peter Mackenzie of Grove House, Twickenham and owner of Harmony Hall, Jamaica (Vere), which appeared to have come to him by marriage. In Mackenzie’s will, proved 6th October 1807, he left his property, including the enslaved people, in trust to his sister Sarah to be sold for the benefit of his children. (UCL Department of History, ‘Peter MacKenzie’, UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership [online], London 2020, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146632201> accessed 25 June 2021.)

No known connections with abolition.

Former owner: NG purchased from Byng in 1837: NG84.

M. Escott, 'BYNG, George (1764-1847), of Wrotham Park and 5 St. James's Square, Mdx', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1820-1832, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/byng-george-1764-1847
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D. R. Fisher, 'BYNG, George (1764-1847), of Wrotham Park, Mdx', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1790-1820, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/byng-george-1764-1847
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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M. H. Port, 'BYNG, George (1764-1847), of Wrotham Park, Mdx', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1754-1790, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/byng-george-1764-1847
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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