George Byng Doctor of Laws Justice of the Peace, of Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, was a British Whig politician.
Background
Byng was the son of George Byng, son of the Honorary Robert Byng, third son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington. His mother was Anne, daughter of William Conolly, while John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford, was his younger brother.
Career
He was educated at Göttingen University from 1780 and a scholar of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg there. Byng was returned to Parliament for Middlesex in 1790, a seat he held until his death 57 years later. He was offered a peerage in order to increase the Whig majority in the House of Lords prior to the 1832 Reform Acting, but refused.
He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Middlesex.
Membership
1st United Kingdom Parliament. 2nd United Kingdom Parliament. 3rd United Kingdom Parliament.
4th United Kingdom Parliament.
5th United Kingdom Parliament. 6th United Kingdom Parliament.
7th United Kingdom Parliament. 8th United Kingdom Parliament.
9th United Kingdom Parliament.
10th United Kingdom Parliament. 11th United Kingdom Parliament. 12th United Kingdom Parliament.
13th United Kingdom Parliament.
14th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th Parliament of Great Britain.
18th Parliament of Great Britain.