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Byron, 6th Baron Byron in that peerage. As a career naval

officer, he was notable for being his predecessor's opposite in temperament and

lifestyle. He was the only son of Honorable George Anson Byron and Charlotte

Henrietta Dallas, and grandson of the admiral and explorer The Hon. John Byron, who circumnavigated

the world with George Anson in

1740–44. He married Elizabeth Mary Chandos Pole on 18 March 1816. She was the

daughter of Sacheverell Pole Esq., of Radbourne Hall, b. 16 June 1769. During this man's lifetime,

he became of representative of Sir John Chandos, K.G., and by sign manual, or deed poll assumed the additional surname of Chandos.

Elizabeth was descended from a well documented long line of the Pole family,

including Cardinal Pole, who at the time of Henry VIII, was the last

Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury and the son of the last Yorkist

heiress, Margaret, countess of Salisbury.

Elizabeth's mother, Mary, was the daughter of the Rev. Henry Ware, D.D., Rector

of Balrothe. Byron joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer in December 1800, serving in

the Napoleonic Wars, and

attaining the rank of captain in 1814. In 1824 Byron was chosen to accompany

homewards the bodies of Hawaiian monarchs Liholiho (known as King Kamehameha II) and Queen Kamāmalu, who had died of measles during a state visit to England. He sailed on HMS Blonde in September 1824, accompanied by

several naturalists and, amongst his lieutenants, Edward Belcher. He toured the islands and recorded his

observations. With the consent of Christian missionaries to the

islands, he also removed wooden carvings and other artifacts of the

chiefs of ancient Hawaii from

the temple ruins of Puʻuhonua O

Hōnaunau. On his return journey in 1825, Lord Byron

discovered and charted Malden Island, which he named after his surveying officer;

also the island of Mauke which he named "Parry

Island" in honour of Sir William Edward Parry, and Starbuck Island. Starbuck was named in honour of Capt. Valentine Starbuck,

an American whaler who had sighted the island while carrying the Hawaiian royal

couple to England in 1823–1824, but had probably been previously sighted by his

cousin and fellow-whaler Capt. Obed Starbuck in

1823. Malden may have been the island sighted by

another whaling captain William Clark in 1823, aboard the Winslow. Byron became a rear-admiral in 1849[9] and a vice-admiral in 1857. Byron retired as admiral in 1862.