Byron, John

Byron, John, 1723-86, British vice admiral and explorer. Sailing in 1740 with Admiral George Anson on a voyage around the world, he was shipwrecked off Chile. His Narrative of Great Distresses on the Shores of Patagonia (1768) is said to have been used by his grandson, the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, in writing Don Juan.

Sir John Byron Junior (c. 1526 - 1600) was an Elizabethan English knight.

He lived at Clayton in Lancashire and later Royton, and later still at Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1579. One of his daughters, was married to Sir Thomas Hutchinson of Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire. His son was John Byron, 1st Baron Byron. He also had several other sons. Their heirs inherited the title from the first baron.

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