BUXTON, Charles (3 son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1 Baronet 1786–1845). b. Cromer 18 Nov. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B. A. 1845, M.A. 1850; partner in firm of Truman, Hanbury and Co. of Spitalfields, London, brewers 1845; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1857–9, for Maidstone 1859–65, for East Surrey 1865 to death; member of the Ritual commission 1867–8; his secretary Arthur White attempted to shoot him at 7 Grosvenor crescent, Hyde Park 29 April 1870; author of Slavery and freedom in the British West Indies 1860; The ideas of the day on policy Dec. 1865. d. Lochearnhead hotel near Killin, Perthshire 10 Aug. 1871. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 Feb. 1872. Notes of thought by the late C. Buxton, 2 ed. (1883) 5–52; Graphic iv, 219, 237 (1871), portrait.
BUXTON, Sir Edward North, 2 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. Earlham, Norfolk 16 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 Feb. 1845; M.P. for South Essex 1847–52, for East Norfolk 6 April 1857 to death. d. Colne house, Cromer 11 June 1858.
BUXTON, Frederick. b. Bow lane, Cheapside, London; made his first appearance on the stage at York 1844 as Mr. Gillman in The happiest day of my life; made his début in London at Olympic theatre 1847 as David in The Rivals; first appeared in America at Louisville, Kentucky March 1850 as Peter in The Stranger. d. Chicago 17 Jany. 1858.
BUXTON, Richard (2 son of John Buxton of Sedgley hall farm, Prestwich, farmer). b. Sedgley hall farm 15 Jany. 1786; apprenticed to a bat maker 1798; botanised in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and North Wales; frequently cited in J. B. Wood’s Flora Mancuniensis 1840 as the authority for many localities of the rarer plants; author of Botanical guide to the flowering plants found within 16 miles of Manchester 1849, 2 ed. 1859. d. Manchester 2 Jany. 1865. J. Cash’s Where there’s a will there’s a way (1873) 94–107; Seemann’s Journ. of Bot. iii, 71 (1865).
BYAM, Edward (younger son of Edward Byam of Cedar hill, Antigua 1767–95). b. 1795; ensign 38 foot 11 Nov. 1811; major 15 Hussars 16 June 1825 to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 18 Hussars 23 Feb. 1858 to death; L.G. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Byam house, Brighton 9 Sep. 1864.
BYAM, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. 1792; ed. at Eton; lieut. 15 Hussars 17 Sep. 1812 to 1817; served in Peninsula, south of France and Waterloo; pres. of local council in Antigua; colonel of regiment of dragoons raised in Antigua; knighted by patent 6 July 1859. d. Westwood, Southampton 5 July 1869.
BYLES, Sir John Barnard (eld. son of Jeremiah Byles of Stowmarket, Suffolk, timber merchant). b. Stowmarket 11 Jany. 1801; a special pleader; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1831; recorder of Buckingham 1840 to Jany. 1858; serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1843; leader of Norfolk circuit 1845; received a patent of precedence 1846; Queen’s serjeant with serjeants Shee and Wrangham 27 Feb. 1857, this was last appointment of queen’s serjeants of whom he was the survivor; judge of Court of Common Pleas Jany. 1858 to Jany. 1873 when he retired on pension of £3,500; knighted at St. James’s palace 14 April 1858; P.C. 3 March 1873; author of A discourse on the present state of the law of England 1829; A practical treatise on the law of bills of exchange 1829, 14 ed. 1885; Observations on the usury laws 1845; Free trade and its so called sophisms examined by a barrister 1850; Foundations of religion in the mind and heart of man 1875. d. Harefield house, Uxbridge 3 Feb. 1884, Will proved 25 March 1884, personalty upwards of £201,000. A. Pulling’s Order of the Coif (1884) 41, 105, 182; A generation of judges by their Reporter 1886; Law Journal xix, 115, 255 (1884); Times 5 Feb. 1884 p. 7, col. 1.
BYNG, Gerald Frederick (youngest son of 5 Viscount Torrington 1741–1813). Page of honour to Prince of Wales 1791; cornet 27 light dragoons 1800; ensign 53 foot 1801–2 when place on h.p.; clerk in Foreign office 5 Jany. 1801 to 5 Nov. 1839 when he retired on a superannuation allowance; ensign St. George’s volunteer infantry 1803; attended on King and Queen of Sandwich Islands during their visit to England May to July 1824; one of gentlemen ushers of privy chamber 23 March 1831 to death; a comr. for inquiring into Smithfield market 28 Nov. 1849; joined ranks of Queen’s rifle volunteers 1859; presented to that corps colours of the St. George’s volunteer infantry 1860; generally known as Poodle Byng, a soubriquet given him by George Canning on account of his curly hair; lived at 5 Cleveland court, afterwards called 37 St. James’s place, Pall Mall, London 1831 to death. d. there 5 June 1871 aged 87. Life of G. Brummell by captain Jesse i, 110 (1886), portrait.
BYNG, Henry Dilkes (brother of the preceding). b. 1784; entered navy March 1798; captain 9 March 1814; held a command on lakes of Canada 15 years; captain of the Ordinary at Portsmouth 1833–6; commodore at Jamaica 1842–3; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 31 Jany. 1856. d. Queen’s terrace, Southsea 23 Sep. 1860.
BYRES, Patrick (younger son of Robert Byres of London, merchant). b. about 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; major 11 Bengal N.I. 5 Aug. 1816; colonel 20 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1825; colonel 33 Bengal N.I. 9 July 1840 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Lonley, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1854.