Pair of Boots,’ e, 1862; ‘Rosebud of Stinging-nettle Farm,’ e, 1862; ‘George de Barnwell,’ e, 1862; ‘Ivanhoe,’ e, 1862; ‘Beautiful Haidée,’ e, 1863; ‘Ali Baba,’ e, 1863; ‘Ill-treated Il Trovatore,’ e, 1863; ‘The Motto,’ e, 1863; ‘Lady Belle-belle,’ e, 1863; ‘Orpheus and Eurydice,’ e, 1863; ‘Mazourka,’ e, 1864; ‘Princess Springtime,’ e, 1864; ‘Grin Bushes,’ e, 1864; ‘Timothy to the Rescue,’ f, 1864; ‘Pan,’ e, 1865; ‘La Sonnambula,’ e, 1865; ‘Lucia di Lammermoor,’ e, 1865; ‘Little Don Giovanni,’ e, 1865; ‘War to the Knife,’ c, 1865; ‘Der Freischutz,’ e, 1866; ‘Pandora's Box,’ e, 1866; ‘A Hundred Thousand Pounds,’ c, 1866; ‘William Tell,’ e, 1867; ‘Dearer than Life,’ d, 1867; ‘Blow for Blow,’ d, 1868; ‘Lucrezia Borgia, M.D.,’ e, 1868; ‘Cyril's Success,’ c, 1868; ‘Not such a Fool as he looks,’ d, 1868; ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ e, 1868; ‘Minnie, or Leonard's Love,’ d, 1869; ‘Corsican Brothers,’ e, 1869; ‘Lost at Sea’ (with Dion Boucicault), d, 1869; ‘Uncle Dick's Darling,’ d, 1869; ‘Yellow Dwarf,’ e, 1869; ‘Lord Bateman,’ e, 1869; ‘Whittington,’ e, 1869; ‘Prompter's Box,’ d, 1870; ‘Robert Macaire,’ e, 1870; ‘Enchanted Wood,’ e, 1870; ‘English Gentleman,’ d, 1870; ‘Wait and Hope,’ d, 1871; ‘Daisy Farm,’ d, 1871; ‘Orange Tree and the Humble Bee,’ e, 1871; ‘Not if I know it,’ e, 1871; ‘Giselle,’ e, 1871; ‘Partners for Life,’ c, 1871; ‘Camaralzaman,’ e, 1871; ‘Blue Beard,’ e, 1871; ‘Haunted Houses,’ d, 1872; ‘Two Stars,’ d (altered from the ‘Prompter's Box’), 1872; ‘Spur of the Moment,’ f, 1872; ‘Good News,’ d, 1872; ‘Lady of the Lake,’ e, 1872; ‘Mabel's Life,’ d, 1872; ‘Time's Triumph,’ d, 1872; ‘Fine Feathers,’ d, 1873; ‘Sour Grapes,’ c, 1873; ‘Fille de Madame Angot,’ op. bouffe, 1873; ‘Old Soldiers,’ c, 1873; ‘Chained to the Oar,’ d, 1873; ‘Don Juan,’ e, 1873; ‘Pretty Perfumeress,’ op. bouffe, 1874; ‘Demon's Bride,’ op. bouffe, 1874; ‘American Lady,’ c, 1874; ‘Normandy Pippins,’ e, 1874; ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ e, 1874; ‘Oil and Vinegar,’ c, 1874; ‘Thumbscrew,’ d, 1874; ‘Old Sailors,’ c, 1874; ‘Our Boys,’ c, 1875; ‘Married in Haste,’ c, 1875; ‘Weak Woman,’ c, 1875; ‘Twenty Pounds a Year,’ f, 1876; ‘Tottles,’ c, 1876; ‘Bull by the Horns,’ c d, 1876; ‘Little Don Cæsar de Bazan,’ e, 1876; ‘Wrinkles,’ d, 1876;‘Widow and Wife,’ d, 1876; ‘Pampered Menials,’ f, 1876; ‘Little Doctor Faust,’ e, 1877; ‘Old Chums,’ c, 1877; ‘Bohemian Gyurl’ (second version), e, 1877; ‘Guinea Gold,’ d, 1877; ‘Forty Thieves,’ e (written in conjunction with F. C. Burnand, W. S. Gilbert, and R. Reece), 1878; ‘La Sonnambula’ (second version), e, 1878; ‘Young Fra Diavolo,’ e, 1878; ‘A Fool and his Money,’ c, 1878; ‘Crushed Tragedian,’ c, 1878; ‘Hornet's Nest,’ c, 1878; ‘Conscience Money,’ d, 1878; ‘Uncle,’ 1878; ‘Courtship,’ c, 1879; ‘Jack the Giant-Killer,’ e, 1879; ‘Pretty Esmeralda,’ e, 1879; ‘Handsome Hernani,’ e, 1879; ‘The Girls,’ c, 1879; ‘Upper Crust,’ c, 1880; ‘Light Fantastic,’ f, 1880; ‘Gulliver's Travels,’ e, 1880; ‘Trovatore,’ e, 1880; ‘Bow Bells,’ d, 1880; ‘Without a Home,’ c, 1880; ‘Michael Strogoff,’ d (translated from the French), 1881; ‘Punch,’ c, 1881; ‘New Broom,’ c, 1881; ‘Fourteen Days,’ c (translated from the French), 1882; ‘Pluto,’ e, 1882; ‘Frolique,’ c (with H. B. Farnie), 1882; ‘Auntie,’ c, 1882; ‘Villainous Squire,’ e, 1882. The following pieces may be added: ‘Dundreary,’ ‘Married and Done for,’ ‘Sensation Fork,’ ‘Our Seaside Lodging,’ ‘Rival Othellos,’ and ‘My Wife and I,’ farces, the exact date of production of which it is difficult to fix. Under the head c are ranked various slight productions put forth as farcical comedies, farcical dramas, &c.
[Private information; Era Almanack; Era Newspaper, 19 April 1884; Athenæum; Dutton Cook's Nights at the Play; Men of the Time, 10th ed.; Pascoe's Dramatic List.]
BYRON, JOHN, first Lord Byron (d. 1652), was descended from Sir John Byron of Clayton, Lancashire, who obtained the abbey of Newstead, Nottinghamshire, at the dissolution of the monasteries. He was the eldest son of Sir John Byron, K.B., by Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Molineux of Sefton, Lancashire. He sat in the last parliament of James I and in the first of Charles I for the borough, and in the parliament of 1627–8 for the county of Nottingham. He had been knighted in the interval. He was high sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1634. His name is not in the list of either the Short or the Long parliament of 1640. In that year he brought his military experience and reputation, acquired in the Low Country wars, to the expedition against the Scots. On its failure, he looked eagerly to the projected great council of the peers at York (August 1640). Writing on the very day of meeting, he expresses his confident hope that ‘the vipers we have been too ready to entertain will be driven out,’ and that the Scotch general Leslie's exaction of 350l. a day from Durham ‘will prove a fruitful precedent for the king's service, that hereafter ship-money may be thought a toy’ (State Papers, Dom., 24 Sept. 1640).
Byron was appointed to the lieutenancy of the Tower after Lunsford's dismissal (26 Dec. 1641). He was sent for as a delinquent by the lords (12 Jan. 1641–2),
