Sir John Byron [Byron the Little]

(d. 1642)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Byron, John, Sir, d. 1642 LBT ID: JoByron1540 VIAF ID: 31886137 LOC ID: nr95017818	DIED: 1642
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Son of Sir Nicholas Byron and Jane Bussey; he acquired Newstead Abbey at the dissolution of the monasteries.
REFERENCES TO Sir John Byron [Byron the Little]: Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter I Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 6 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: to 1806 Found 1: ¶ 5 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 1: ¶ 23 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 11