George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington


George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington was an English peer.

Origins

He was the eldest son and heir of George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington by his wife Elizabeth Daniel.

Career

He inherited the Torrington viscountcy and the family seat of Southill Park in Bedfordshire on the death of his father in 1750. He sold Southill to the beer magnate, Samuel Whitbread, in 1795.

Marriage and children

On 20 July 1765 he married Lady Lucy Boyle, a daughter of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, by his wife, Margaret Hamilton, by whom he had seven children, three sons who all predeceased him, and four daughters:
He died on 14 December 1812, and as he left no surviving male issue he was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington, who died one year later.