George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington

Who was George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington?

George Stanley Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington, known as George Byng until 1884, was a British Conservative politician.

Torrington was the son of Major the Hon. Robert Barlow Palmer Byng, third son of George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington. His mother was Elizabeth Maria, daughter of Major-General Edward Gwatkin. He succeeded his uncle in the viscountcy in 1884 and served briefly as a Lord-in-Waiting from March to October 1889 in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury.

Lord Torrington married firstly Alice Arabella, daughter of James Jameson, in 1882. After her death in 1883 he married secondly Emmeline, daughter of Reverend Henry Seymour, in 1885. Torrington died in office in October 1889, aged 48, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son from his second marriage, George. Lady Torrington died in June 1912.