Editing John Byron (section)

==Family==
[[File:JohnByron 01.jpg|thumb|200px|John Byron Death Notice]]
On 8 September 1748 he married his first cousin Sophia Trevanion, daughter of John Trevanion of [[Caerhays Castle|Caerhays]] in Cornwall and Barbara Berkeley, the sister of his mother.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJFIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA255 |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. I|author=John Burke, Esq.|publisher=[[Henry Colburn]]|page=255|date= 1834|access-date=2018-06-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpxfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA47 |title=A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire|author=Sir Bernard Burke, LL.D.|publisher=Harrison, 59, Pall Mall|page=47|date= 1866|access-date=2018-06-13}}</ref> They had two sons and seven daughters:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Brand|first=Emily|title=The Fall of the House of Byron|publisher=John Murray|year=2020|pages=96–102}}</ref>

* Frances Byron (1749–1823), later married Charles Leigh
* Sophia Byron (died in infancy)
* Isabella Byron (died in infancy)
* Juliana Elizabeth Byron (1754–88), later married her cousin Hon. [[William Byron (MP)|William Byron]] (d. 1776, son of [[William Byron, 5th Baron Byron]])
* Sophia Maria Byron (1755–1821), the 'maiden aunt' of the poet [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|George Gordon Byron]]
* [[John "Mad Jack" Byron]] (1757–91), who in turn fathered the poet [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|George Gordon Byron]], the future 6th Baron Byron
* George Anson Byron (1758–93), noted navy officer and father of [[George Byron, 7th Baron Byron|George Anson Byron]] junior, another admiral and explorer and later the 7th Baron Byron
* Charlotte Byron (died in infancy) 
* Augusta Barbara Charlotte Byron (1762–1824), later married Admiral Christopher Parker

John was the brother of Hon. George Byron, married to Frances Levett, daughter of Elton [[Levett]] of [[Nottingham]], a descendant of Ambrose Elton, Esq., [[High Sheriff of Herefordshire]] in 1618 and a surgeon in Nottingham.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QK-4tHp4dzgC&q=elton&pg=PA58 |title=The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage with Brief Histories of the Family Histories of the Nobility, Edmund Lodge, London, 1832 |access-date=2009-07-20|last1=Lodge |first1=Edmund |year=1832 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalac00mayogoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalac00mayogoog/page/n36 16] |quote=thomas levett lichfield. |title=A Genealogical Account of the Mayo and Elton Families of the Counties of Wilts and Hereford, Charles Herbert Mayo, London, 1882 |publisher=Privately printed by C. Whittingham |year=1882 |access-date=2009-07-20|last1=Mayo |first1=Charles Herbert }}</ref>