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See also:BYRON, See also:JOHN BYRON , 1st See also:BARON (c. 1600–1652), See also:English See also:cavalier, was the eldest son of See also:Sir John Byron (d. 1625), a member of an old See also:Lancashire See also:family which had settled at New-See also:stead, near See also:Nottingham. During the third See also:decade of the 17th See also:century Byron was member of See also:parliament for the See also:town and afterwards for the See also:county of Nottingham; and having been knighted and gained some military experience he was an enthusiastic See also:partisan of See also:Charles I. during his struggle with the parliament. In See also:December 1641 the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king made him See also:lieutenant of the See also:Tower of See also:London, but in consequence of the persistent demand of the See also:House of See also:Commons he was removed from this position at his own See also:request See also:early in 1642. At the opening of the See also:Civil See also:War Byron joined Charles at See also:York. He was See also:present at the skirmish at Powick See also:Bridge; he commanded his own See also:regiment of See also:horse at Edgehill and at Roundway Down, where he was largely responsible for the royalist victory; and at the first See also:battle of See also:Newbury See also:Falkland placed himself under his orders. In See also:October 1643 he was created Baron Byron of See also:Rochdale, and was soon serving the king in See also:Cheshire, where the soldiers sent over from See also:Ireland augmented his forces. His defeat at See also:Nantwich, however, in See also:January 1644, compelled him to retire into See also:Chester, and he was made See also:governor of this See also:city by See also:Prince See also:Rupert. .At See also:Marston See also:Moor, as previously at Edgehill, Byron's rashness gave a See also:great See also:advantage to the enemy; then after fighting in Lancashire and See also:North See also:Wales he returned to Chester, which he held for about twenty See also:weeks in spite of the king's defeat at See also:Naseby and the See also:general hopelessness of the royal cause. Having obtained favourable terms he surrendered the city in See also:February 1646. Byron took some slight See also:part in the second Civil War, and was one of the seven persons excepted by parliament from all See also:pardon in 1648. But he had already See also:left See also:England, and he lived abroad in attendance on the royal family until his See also:death in See also:Paris in See also:August 1652. Although twice married Byron left no See also:children, and his See also:title descended to his See also:brother See also:Richard (1605–1679), who had been governor of See also:Newark. Byron's five other See also:brothers served Charles I. during the Civil War, and one authority says that the seven Byrons were all present at Edgehill.
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