page_title: Frances Byron, Baroness Byron
hierarchical_section_title: Frances Byron, Baroness Byron
caption_attribution_description: English: Third wife of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron, great grandmother of Lord Byron, painted by William Hogarth. Now on display in the Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
context_page_description: Frances, Baroness Byron, was the second daughter of William Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton, and his wife Frances Temple. She was the third wife of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron and a great-grandmother of the poet Lord Byron.
  Lady Byron was one of 21 women of influence who signed Thomas Coram's petition of 1729, which led to the foundation of the Foundling Hospital. She is also known for sitting for the eighteenth-century artist William Hogarth, whose painting has been exhibited at the Foundling Museum, near Brunswick Square in London, as part of their "Ladies of Quality" exhibition.
context_section_description: Frances, Baroness Byron (later Hay; née Berkeley; c.1702 – 1759), was the second daughter of William Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton (died 1740/1), and his wife Frances Temple (died 1707). She was the third wife of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron and a great-grandmother of the poet Lord Byron.
  Lady Byron was one of 21 women of influence who signed Thomas Coram's petition of 1729, which led to the foundation of the Foundling Hospital. She is also known for sitting for the eighteenth-century artist William Hogarth (1697–1764), whose painting has been exhibited at the Foundling Museum, near Brunswick Square in London, as part of their "Ladies of Quality" exhibition.
caption: Frances, Lady Byron is identified as Hogarth's sitter in this portrait of 1736. Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley
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