DARCY, Amelia Marchioness of Carmarthen, Baroness Conyers ^{1 2}

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Amelia married Captain John BYRON 'Mad Jack' in June 1779.¹ (Captain John BYRON 'Mad Jack' was born on 7 February 1756 ³ and died on 2 August 1791 in Valenciennes, France ¹.). The cause of his death was suicide?.

  Marriage Notes:

"Captain John Byron was the eldest son of Admiral the Hon. John Byron (who was in turn the second son of the fourth Lord Byron), by Sophia Trevanion of Carhays, Cornwall (whose pedigree will be found in Burke's History of the Commoners, 1833, i., 253-5). The Byrons had become a bye-word. The fifth Lord (who was in Aberdeen as a captain in the Duke of Kingston's Horse, March 20, 1745-6) made himself notorious by reason of his killing his kinsman, William Chaworth, in a duel, fought in a tavern in Pall Mall, in 1765. The Admiral (1723-1786) started life by being wrecked on the coast of Chili, in 1741 (he wrote a book about it) ; and, as a Don Juan of fifty summers, he again found himself on a dangerous coast, for he set up an establishment in London for his wife's exmaid (Town and Country Magazine, Dec., 1773).

His handsome son, Captain John Byron, regarded him as an excellent model, for he ran away, in December, 1778, with the beautiful, but bored, Marchioness of Carmarthen, Baroness Conyers in her own right, and daughter-in-law of the 5th Duke of Leeds. The town rang with the scandal (see ibid., Jan., 1779, and Bon-Accord, August 19, 1898). Byron had the temerity to marry the lady, June, 1779. She bore him one child, the famous Augusta. She kept him in pocket-money, and departed this life, in France, Jan. 27, 1784, the victim of 'consumption and his ill-usage'."

from Gight ¹