Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Irish Rebellion of 1798, he became
Portrait by William Salter, 1834–1840
Wellington at Sorauren by Thomas Jones Barker. The Battle of the Pyrenees: Byng's stubborn resistance at Roncesvalles allowed the Viscount Wellington (shown on horseback in the painting) to consolidate enough troops to defeat the French at the Battle of the Pyrenees
Wrotham Park
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Wrotham Park is a neo-Palladian English country house in the parish of South Mimms, Hertfordshire. It lies south of the town of Potters Bar and 12.2 miles north of Hyde Park Corner in central London.
John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford
…one of the few military men who supported the Reform Bill, for which he was rewarded with a peerage. He was the third son of George Byng (1735–1789) of Wrotham Park in Middlesex (now in Hertfordshire) (eldest son of Robert Byng (1703–1740), Governor of Barbados) by his wife Anne Conolly, whose mother was a daughter…
Aerial photograph of Wrotham Park, c. 1949
Entrance to Wrotham Park